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Splay

is a contraction of display (to unfold; Latin, dis-plico). A splay window is one in a V-shape, the external opening being very wide, to admit as much light as possible, but the inner opening being very small. A splay-foot is a foot displayed or turned outward. A splay-mouth is a wide mouth, like that of a clown.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Spiritual Mother
Spiritualism or Spiritism
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Spittle or Spital
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Spoke (verb)
Spoke (noun)
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