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Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..

Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet..

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..

Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..

Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.

Spell :: Spell (n.) A spelk, or splinter..

Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.

Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

Splinterproof :: Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot..

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..

Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..

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