Definition of splint

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Splint (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set..

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Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..
Basket :: Basket (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.
Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Rankle :: Rankle (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom..
Immobilize :: Immobilize (v. t.) To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages..
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..
Splinted :: Splint (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent..
Splinterproof :: Splinter (n.) 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..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..
Splinting :: Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splin.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..
Splintered :: Splint (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..
Shiver :: Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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