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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..

Shatter :: Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning..

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..

Pyrrol :: Pyrrol (n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red..

Split :: Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral..

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

Basket :: Basket (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven..

Spill :: Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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..

Splinted :: Splint (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent..

Match :: Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium..

Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb..

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..

Flinders :: Flinders (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

Splint :: Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splin.

Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..

Splinting :: Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splin.

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

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