a. (Arch.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Abbrev. of display. ] 1. To display; to spread. [ Obs. ] “Our ensigns splayed.” Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To spay; to castrate. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Splayfeet A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a splayfoot or splayfeet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Splaymouths A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a splaymouth. T. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]