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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..

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

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

Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.

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..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver..

Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

Garreting :: Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

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..

Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..

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

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

Splinter :: Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinte.

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter..

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

Spell :: Spell (n.) A spelk, or splinter..

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..

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..

Splintering :: Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinte.

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..

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