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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..

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

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..

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..

Obsidian :: Obsidian (n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters..

Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

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

Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

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..

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

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..

Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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