Splay \Splay\, v. t. [Abbrev. of display.]
   1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed."
      --Gascoigne.
      
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   2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
      
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   3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
      
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   4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant,
      as the side of a door, window, etc. --Oxf. Gloss.
      
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Splay \Splay\, a.
   Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly;
   as, splay shoulders.
   
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         Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and
         infelicitous.                            --M. Arnold.
   
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Splay \Splay\, a. (Arch.)
   A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or
   window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of
   the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces
   than it is between them.
   
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