Splay

v. t. [Abbreviated from display, q. v.]

1Sense 1. To display; to spread open. [Obs.] “Our ensigns splayed.” Gascoigne.

2Sense 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder-bone.

3Sense 3. To castrate; to geld. [Obs.] Holland.

4Sense 4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, and the like. Oxf. Gloss.

n. A slanted or sloped surface; especially, the expansion given to doors, windows, and the like, by slanting their sides.