SPLINTER
\splˈɪntə], \splˈɪntə], \s_p_l_ˈɪ_n_t_ə]\
Definitions of SPLINTER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
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To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
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To become split into long pieces.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A thin piece of wood, etc., split or torn off lengthwise; fragment.
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To split or tear into long thin pieces.
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Splintery.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To separate into splinters; split.
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To support by splints.
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A small sharp piece split off from a solid body.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Same etymon. This term is sometimes applied to a small portion of wood, which occasionally enters the skin, and gives occasion to much irritation, until it is removed, - Acu'leus lig'neus, (F.) Echarde. It is also applied to fragments that separate from a fractured or diseased bone.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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- American journalist, verse-writer, editor, lecturer; born in New York city, Oct. 2, 1835. was long known as editor on the Independent(1856-72). established Golden Age(newspaper), but retired from it after two years. 1883 went abroad, where remained. Besides numerous essays fugitive pieces, he has published: "The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems"(1867); "Sanctum Sanctorum; or, An Editor's Proof Sheets"(1869); "Tempest-Tossed", a romance(1873); "Thou I"(1880); "Suabian Stories",(1882). Died 1907.