/splay/ , v.t.
1. to spread out, expand, or extend.
2. to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
3. to make with a splay or splays.
4. to disjoin; dislocate.
v.i.
5. to have an oblique or slanting direction.
6. to spread or flare.
n.
7. Archit. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall.
adj.
8. spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
9. clumsy or awkward.
10. oblique or awry.
[ 1300-50; ME; aph. form of DISPLAY ]