splintn.

Brit.

/splɪnt/, U.S.

/splɪnt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s splente, Middle English–1800s splent (Middle English splentt, 1500s splenntt, spleynt). β. Middle English–1500s splynt(e, splinte, 1500s– splint.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch splinte (Dutch splint ), or Middle Low German splinte, splente (Low German splinte , splente , and splint , whence German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian splint ) metal plate or pin, = Old High German splinza ‘repagulum, pessulus’, of doubtful etymology: compare spline n. and splinter n.

a. One of the plates or strips of overlapping metal of which certain portions of medieval armour were sometimes composed; esp. one of a pair of pieces of this nature used for protecting the arms at the elbows.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > armour formed of splints > splint

splint1374

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > for elbow

splint1374

coutere?a1400

α.

1374 Acc. John de Sleford in For. Acc. 49 Edw. III B In..xj paribus splentes, ij paribus tibialium.

a1400 Coer de L. 4979 He was armyd in splentes off steel.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 2061 The splent and the spleene on the spere lengez!

1474 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 194 Tha sal be..welbeseyn with Jakkis, hattis, and splentis.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Splent, harnesse for the arme, garde de bras.

1561 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 193 A stuffed Jacke, a payre of splents.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 281 The number of iiij^e speiris weill arrayit in jake and splent and wther airmor.

1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. 129 He has call'd him forty Marchmen bauld,..With spur on heel and splent on spauld.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 310 Such force, as to drive the iron splents of the gauntlet into the hand of the wearer.

figurative.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6320 When he forthe went, Aboute his nek agayne sho [a snake] cleuyd. Shame mare þan him greuyd Of þat sary splent.β. 1499 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 58, No. 5) Unum par brygonders, 1 par splynts.1517 in Archaeol. XLVII. 310 dcxl splyntes, and dcccviij salettes.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 209 They carye..certeyne armure of golde: especially great and rounde pieces on theyr brestes, and splintes on there armes.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ii. 25 The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other.1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour III. 27 Having not only splints at the elbows, but the breast and back-plates made flexible in the same manner.

b. Zoology. (See quot. 1896)

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1896 tr. Boas' Zool. 408 True scales; if these are much broader than they are long, as on the ventral side of the body in Snakes, they are termed splints.

a. A slender, moderately long and frequently flexible, rod or slip of wood cut or cleft off and serving for some particular purpose, esp. as a lath or wattle, or prepared for use in some manufacture.The exact meaning in the first two quotations is uncertain.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > slender piece for specific purpose

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splinter1648

minikin1852

sticker1893

minik1899

α.

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 84 Splentes, trenchons.

c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 449 Traches et trenchous, Sulle-trees and splentes.

1348 in 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1870) App. 65/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 55) XXXIX. 543 [For] splentes [for the vineyard, 7d. For] hordlis, [4s. 6d].

1410 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Defrondaverunt salices..ad valenciam ii carectat. Splents, pretium viii^d.

c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 73 Ley splentes vnderneth and al abouȝt the sides, that the Capon touche no thinge of the potte.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Whan the swarme is knyt, take a hyue and splent it within, with thre or foure splentes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Splent for an house, laite.

1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xi. sig. Ci^v Or wilt thou in a yellow Boxen bole Taste with a woodden splent the sweet lythe honey?

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 459 When the wood is cut into many clefts & splents, fresh and green, they are heaped vp on high [etc.].

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Splent, a lath... The term is still in use in Suffolk. Splents are parts of sticks or poles, either whole or split, placed upright in forming walls, and supported by rizzers [= poles] for receiving the clay daubing.

β. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1375 Calathus is a basket ymade of splyntes to bere figes þerinne.1463 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Pro splintes inde habend. pro camera ad finem orientalem ejusdem domus.1483 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Reparabunt..dictam domum et cameram in daubitura, videlicet cum Splynts et Cley mixt. cum stramine.1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I An ouerthwart post in their walles, whereunto they fasten their Splintes or radles.1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A little board or a planke or splint of thin boords.1633 F. Quarles in P. Fletcher Purple Island sig. ¶¶3^v Mans Bodie's like a house: his greater bones Are the main timber; and the lesser ones Are smaller splints.1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 215 The Hive being taken and housed,..loosen the ends of the splints with your Finger.1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 48 The 2 splints of wood spreading each side, directs the point into the fish.1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 14 The bark is lined with small splints of cedar-wood.1864 G. L. M. Strauss et al. England's Workshops 231 The paraffin dipped splints are taken to the woodmatch-framing department.1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 559/1 We take a broom splint sometimes, or a penknife, or a pin.

b. Military. (See quot. 1875.)

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Splint, a tapering strip of wood, used to adjust a shell centrally in the bore of a mortar.

a. A splinter of wood or stone; a chip or fragment. Now chiefly northern dialect.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter

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spilter?1646

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α. 1398 [see β. ].

c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 7397 Here speres brast In splentes.

1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xxxvii Of it selfe this draweth forth thornes or splents of wood runne deepe into the fleshe.

1612 North's Plutarch 1126 So soone as ever they pulled out the head and splent of the dart.

β. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xi. ii Þe mater [of snow] is broke in brode parties, as it were splyntes [1495 splentes] of shellis.1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery H iij b My Hart like Ware so lightly did not brooke More then one stroke, ere Cupid brought to passe One splint of skale therof to take away.1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 312/2 To extracte a Thorne or Splinte out of anye wounde without payne.a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 151 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The splints of broken staves fly about their eares.1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. xxii. 163 These things are to bee done when splints of the scull doe pricke the menings.1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 7 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) If he haue not Judgment, the Shivers or Splints of the Whin or hard Stone..will Wound him severely.1865– in Yks. and Lancs. dial. glossaries. 1868 W. Whitman Chants Democratic in Poems 147 I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poisoned splint [etc.].

b. South African. A fragment or broken piece of diamond.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > broken piece of diamond

splint1872

1872 C. Rhodes Let. in B. Williams Cecil Rhodes (1921) iv. 29 You must not however think that every diamond one finds is a beauty, the great proportion are nothing but splints.

1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami xxvii. 415 Faithfully carrying out their master's behests, and never robbing him of a single splint.

1903 W. R. Cattelle Precious Stones 79 Beyond the small pieces resulting from cleavages, other fragments are saved which cannot be cut to jewels. Some of these are called ‘splints’, and are used for mechanical purposes or ground to powder.

a. Surgery. A thin piece of wood or other more or less rigid material used to hold a fractured or dislocated bone in position during the process of reunion; by extension, any appliance or apparatus serving this purpose. Also, an object used to fasten or immobilize teeth or the jaws.‘Splints vary almost infinitely in form and size, according to the part to which they have to be adapted, and the position in which it is to be held’ ( Penny Cycl. XXII. 368/1). ‘A number of these are specially described in recent Medical Dicts.’ ( N.E.D.).

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint

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splintc1400

shindle1598

splinter1598

junk1617

fish1666

starch bandage1838

starch splint1843

pistol-splint1860

Balkan splint1916

gutter-splint1919

α.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 63 If þat þe prickynge eiþer þe dislocacioun nediþ splentis [v.r. splyntes], make þat þe splentis & byndynge faile aboue þe wounde.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Canalis, a splent for a broken limme.

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 32* b I had rather be packing while my bones be whole, then to be promised golden splents when they are broken.

1634 Lowe's Chirurg. 359 Then it must be banded more slacke, using more bands and no splents.

1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 181 Afterwards you shall put square Olive Splents upon it not less than four Fingers broad.

1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Acharnians v. i, in Comedies 111 Prepare lint, plaister, greasy wool, and splents To bind his ancle up!

β. a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xii Bynde it with flexe above..with iiii. splyntes wele ybounde þerto one agaynn an other because þat þe bones shuld not remewe.1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Attelles, little splintes which Surgeons set about ones legge or broken arme.1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. xv. 63 A is a splint of the breadth of three fingers.1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 162 Splints..are made of much paper and then Chips of Wood.c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 107 To each Side of this Bone is fastned a Splint, in Shape like a Bodkin.1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. xxxviii. 204 Splints ought to be made of strong materials, and of a sufficient length to reach beyond the two joints nearest the fracture.1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 44 A splint of wood or whalebone fastened over a fractured toe or finger.1876 C. Gibbon Robin Gray viii His arm was still in splints.1948 Brit. Dental Jrnl. 85 223/1 Removable acrylic bite blocks or splints with clasps were constructed.., so that the bite was opened..and the mandible moved forward.1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. xiv. 144 The main object of periodontal splint design is to make use of sound teeth to give stability to mobile teeth.

b. transferred. (See quot. 1875.)

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/2 Splint, a wooden strip for splicing and stiffening a fractured bar or beam.

5. Farriery.

a. A callous tumour developing into a bony excrescence formed on the metacarpal bones of a horse's or mule's leg, occurring usually on the inside of the leg along the line of union of the splint-bones with the cannon-bone.through-splint: see thorough splint n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours > tumour

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ringbonec1465

blood spavin?1523

curb?1523

serew?1523

splint?1523

thorough-serewe?1523

thorough spavin?1523

windgall?1523

bone spavin1566

boneshavea1585

grape1600

surot1601

hough-bony1607

lichen1607

gorge1610

bog-spavin1631

splint-bone1704

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jarde1727

thorough-pin1789

α.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiii^v A splent is the lest sorance that is, that alway contynueth except lampas.

1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 2^v, in 2nd Pt. Herball I thinke verely that the bath of brimstone..will heale splentes, spavines, and all knobbes.

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. I1^v A Horse cannot be lustie at legges; by reason that either his hoofes bee not good, or that there be Splents, or any other Eye-sore about the nether Ioynt.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 152/1 The Splent..is a spungy hard gristly bone..which by making the Horse stark, causeth him to stumble.

1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xvi. 305 Bladders, Wind-galls, Splents, and other Swellings in the Legs and Joints.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. ii. 67 If there be large Splents, they may truly be called Blemishes.

1830 ‘J. Hinds’ Osmer's Treat. Horse (ed. 5) Index 267 Splents cause lameness.

1859 Blackwood's Mag. 85 455 The animal's legs were so enlarged by splents that they were literally cylindrical.

β. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C A leg both straight and cleane, That hath nor spauen, splint nor flawe.1677 London Gaz. No. 1183/4 An Iron gray Gelding, having on each Leg a Splint.1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 18 Feel his Legs, Master, neither Splint, Spavin, nor Wind-gall.1724 London Gaz. No. 6266/4 Two large Splints on his two fore Legs.1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 364 The Splint is a fixed callous Excrescence..growing upon the Flat of the Inside or Outside, and sometimes both, of the Shank Bone.1831 W. Youatt Horse xiii. 244 The splint is invariably found on the outside of the small bone, and generally on the inside of the leg.1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 312 There's a splint on the off-leg!

b. The growth of this, as a specific malady in horses.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours

ringbone1362

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thorough splint1577

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gourdiness1721

1598 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse (new ed.) sig. B2^v If he haue outward diseases, as the spuing, splent, ring-bone, windgall.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 38 Mallenders, splent, serewe, Ring-bone, and such like infirmities in the Fore-feet.

1704 Dict. Rusticum Splint is a Disease in an Horse.

1831 W. Youatt Horse xix. 365 Splent.—It depends entirely on the situation of the bony tumour.., whether it is to be considered as unsoundness.

?1847 T. Brown Man. Mod. Farriery 114 It is difficult to conceive how splent should appear on the outside of the small bones.

†6. = tent n.³ 2. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > plug, pad, or swab

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pulvillus?a1425

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penicil1657

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pad1767

tampon1848

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Gamgee pad1885

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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 187 When the vineger is consumed, then put in the Opponax, and of both together make like taynters or splints and thurst [sic] them into the wound.

†7. A separate turn or coil in a spiral. Obsolete.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > a spiral > a single coil in a spiral or helix

splint1607

wreath1634

spiral1728

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 717 The splents of the spire are smooth and not deep, being for the most part like vnto the wreathing turnings of Snailes.

8. (See quot. 1883 and splint coal n.)

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]

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sea-coal1253

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cannel1541

earth coala1552

horse coal1552

Newcastle coal1552

stone-coal1585

cannel coal1587

parrot1594

burn-coal1597

lithanthrax1612

stony coal1617

Welsh coala1618

land-coala1661

foot coal1665

peacock coal1686

rough coal1686

white coal1686

heathen-coalc1697

coal-stone1708

round1708

stone-coal1708

bench-coal1712

slipper coal1712

black coal1713

culm1742

rock coal1750

board coal1761

Bovey coal1761

house coal1784

mineral coal1785

splint1789

splint coal1789

jet coal1794

anthracite1797

wood-coal1799

blind-coal1802

black diamond1803

silk-coal1803

glance-coal1805

lignite1808

Welsh stone-coal1808

soft1811

spout coals1821

spouter1821

Wallsend1821

brown coal1833

paper coal1833

steam-coal1850

peat-coal1851

cherry-coal1853

household1854

sinter coal1854

oil coal1856

raker1857

Kilkenny coal1861

Pottery coal1867

silkstone1867

block coal1871

admiralty1877

rattlejack1877

bunker1883

fusain1883

smitham1883

bunker coal1885

triping1886

trolley coal1890

kibble1891

sea-borne1892

jet1893

steam1897

sack coal1898

Welsh1898

navigation coal1900

Coalite1906

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durain1919

vitrain1919

single1921

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hards1956

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > splintery coal

splint1789

splint coal1789

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 218 Sometimes masses of splent or parrot..will be found upon the side or at the bottom of a ravine.

1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 4 The Coals are partly Smithy Coals, and partly Rich Caking Splents.

1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 4 There are several Seams of Dry Splents.

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 49 Splint, coarse grey-looking coal... Suitable for burning lime, and the better sorts for steam purposes.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 231 Splint or Splent, a laminated, coarse, inferior, dull-looking, hard coal, producing much white ash; intermediate between cannel and common pit coal.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 6/3 The prices fixed for splint are 2s. higher.

attributive.1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 57 Where the men had first to descend one of these stairs..to the splint seam.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, chiefly in sense 2, as splint-cutter, splint-cutting, splint-machine, splint-plane; splint-like adj. See also splint-bone n.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Splint-cutter, a shaper and maker of splints.

1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 141 The splint~like bones in the leg of the horse.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/1 Splint-machine, a machine for riving or planing small slats or splints for use in making woven-slat blinds, baskets [etc.].

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/1 Splint-plane, one for riving splints from a block or board.

1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism 385 We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splintlike bones.

C2. In the sense ‘made or formed of splints’ (in sense 2), as splint-basket, splint-bottom, splint-chair, splint letter-case, splint rocker; splint-bottomed adj.

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1850 Knickerbocker 36 73 She wiped out the seats of some splint-bottomed chairs with her calico apron.

1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island I. iv. 19 Rows of old fashioned splint-bottomed chairs against the wall.

1867 Summer in L. Goldthwaite's Life 175 The finest and whitest and most graceful of all possible little splint baskets.

1871 B. Taylor in Hansen-Taylor & Scudder Life & Lett. (1884) II. xxiii. 564 An old-fashioned, high-backed splint-chair.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 68 The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom armchair, was dozing.

1889 M. E. Wilkins Mor. Exigency (1891) 28 There were a few poor attempts at adornment on the walls; a splint letter-case, a motto worked in worsteds [etc.].

1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber iv. 36 A comfortable armchair with splint-bottom.

1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber v. 46 Their splint-bottomed armchairs.

1922 M. B. Houston Witchman i. 17 Straight hickory chairs and a splint rocker were set at irregular angles about the room.

C3.

splint-armour n. armour made of splints (sense 1a).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > armour formed of splints

splint-armour1852

1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 131 Écrevisse,..splint-armour.

1885 H. A. Dillon Fairholt's Costume in Eng. (ed. 3) II. (Gloss.) s.v. Splint armour for the legs..is common in German effigies.

splint-boot n. a special boot for a horse suffering from a splint (sense 5a).

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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for horses > boot or stocking

splint-boot1862

poultice boot1875

stocking1875

poultice-shoe1888

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4693 Web, Fetlock, Speedy, Splint,..and Strengthening Boots.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

splintv.

Brit.

/splɪnt/, U.S.

/splɪnt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s splent, 1500s splente. β. 1600s– splint.

Etymology: < splint n. Compare Swedish splinta to split or splinter.

†1. transitive. To cover, furnish, or construct with splints or thin strips of wood, etc. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with splints

splint?a1400

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3264 A-bowte cho whirllide a whele with hir whitte hondez... The spekes..was splentide alle with speltis of siluer.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Whan the swarme is knyt, take a hyue and splent it within, with thre or foure splentes.

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. ii. xv. 110 Then you shall make a studde wall, which shall be splinted.

1632–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 697 The Particions and studyes, to be splented and Clayed betweene the Studds.

1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xlviii. §527 The partition wall he buildeth up even, being splented and dawbed with clay-mortar.

a. To adjust, bind, or fit a surgical splint to (a fractured bone, etc.); to put into splints; to hold firmly in position, to secure, by means of a splint or splints.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint

spelkc1000

splint1543

splinter1720

spell1886

α.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vi. f. 180^v/1 Yf the dislocation be with a fracture,..after restauracion, ye shall bynde it & splent it.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 143^v Their legges yf they happen to be broken,..being wrapped fyrst in wooll..and afterward splented.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxxxix. 442 Then splent it [a broken bone] with three broad, smooth, & strong splents.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xi. 243 Clap..over that a peece of Leather, cut and shaped for the purpose, and so splent it to keepe it fast on.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck (at cited word) Spalcken, to Splent as when a Chirurgian binds up broken Bones or Limmes.

β. 1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court B ij To heale the infected, to splint the spreined, to reduce the wandring.1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 166 The member being onely artificiallie bound, and splinted orderly.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Surbating Stop up his Foot therewith,..covering it with a Piece of an old Shoe, and splint it.1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 25 Poser une attelle, to splint, to put on a splint.1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. 259 If a broken limb be not splinted the ends may be forced through the skin.

†b. To secure or keep in (a dressing, etc.) with a splint or splints. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint > secure with splints

splint1610

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. ci. 385 With a little tow stoppe all the foote, and especially the frush, and splent it in so as it may not fall out.

c. figurative and transferred. To strengthen or support as if with splints.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > as with splints

splinta1634

a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) v. 70 An Emperour might die standing, why not I? Nay without help, in which I will exceed him; For he died splinted with his chamber Groomes.

1832 Examiner 721/2 He wants strength of character;—but authority will come in aid of his peculiar deficiency, and splint him up.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 108/2 Inner and outer layers of epithelial tissue, splinted by connective tissue.., are always developed.

†d. To stop with a splint. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking

to stop a person's mouthc1175

stilla1225

to keep ina1420

stifle1496

to knit up1530

to muzzle (up) the mouth1531

choke1533

muzzle?1542

to tie a person's tongue1544

tongue-tiea1555

silence1592

untongue1598

to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605

to bite in1608

gaga1616

to swear downa1616

to laugh down1616

stifle1621

to cry down1623

unworda1627

clamour1646

splint1648

to take down1656

snap1677

stick1708

shut1809

to shut up1814

to cough down1823

to scrape down1855

to howl down1872

extinguish1878

hold1901

shout1924

to pipe down1926

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Spalcken den mondt, to Gagge or Splent the mouth.

†3.

a. To cut or split (wood, etc.) into splints or splinters; to cleave or slit apart or in two. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)]

to-cleavec888

cleavea1100

forcleavec1290

shidec1315

rivec1330

sheara1340

carvec1374

slivea1400

thrusche1483

porfend1490

splet1530

share?1566

spleet1585

splint1591

split1595

diverberate1609

fissure1656

spall1841

balkanize1942

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Desgajar To cleaue a sunder, to slit, to splent.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Schiantare,..to riue, to splint, to shiuer.

1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah iv. 68 He looketh whether any planke were rift or splint in two.

†b. (See quot. 1740) Obsolete. rare.

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1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 167 Where the Horse is young and fond of running, it would splint him or knock him up (as we say) if the Rider were to make his Flourishes upon his Back like a Rope-dancer.

†4. intransitive. Of the heart: To burst or split. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of heart > have disorder of heart [verb (intransitive)] > burst

splint1594

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 102 Hard heart of mine why splintst? why breakst not thou?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	splint
释义	splintn. Brit. /splɪnt/, U.S. /splɪnt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s splente, Middle English–1800s splent (Middle English splentt, 1500s splenntt, spleynt). β. Middle English–1500s splynt(e, splinte, 1500s– splint. Etymology: < Middle Dutch splinte (Dutch splint ), or Middle Low German splinte, splente (Low German splinte , splente , and splint , whence German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian splint ) metal plate or pin, = Old High German splinza ‘repagulum, pessulus’, of doubtful etymology: compare spline n. and splinter n. 1. a. One of the plates or strips of overlapping metal of which certain portions of medieval armour were sometimes composed; esp. one of a pair of pieces of this nature used for protecting the arms at the elbows. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > armour formed of splints > splint splint1374 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > for elbow splint1374 coutere?a1400 α. 1374 Acc. John de Sleford in For. Acc. 49 Edw. III B In..xj paribus splentes, ij paribus tibialium. a1400 Coer de L. 4979 He was armyd in splentes off steel. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2061 The splent and the spleene on the spere lengez! 1474 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 194 Tha sal be..welbeseyn with Jakkis, hattis, and splentis. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Splent, harnesse for the arme, garde de bras. 1561 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 193 A stuffed Jacke, a payre of splents. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 281 The number of iiij^e speiris weill arrayit in jake and splent and wther airmor. 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. 129 He has call'd him forty Marchmen bauld,..With spur on heel and splent on spauld. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 310 Such force, as to drive the iron splents of the gauntlet into the hand of the wearer. figurative.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6320 When he forthe went, Aboute his nek agayne sho [a snake] cleuyd. Shame mare þan him greuyd Of þat sary splent.β. 1499 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 58, No. 5) Unum par brygonders, 1 par splynts.1517 in Archaeol. XLVII. 310 dcxl splyntes, and dcccviij salettes.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 209 They carye..certeyne armure of golde: especially great and rounde pieces on theyr brestes, and splintes on there armes.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ii. 25 The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other.1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour III. 27 Having not only splints at the elbows, but the breast and back-plates made flexible in the same manner. b. Zoology. (See quot. 1896) ΚΠ 1896 tr. Boas' Zool. 408 True scales; if these are much broader than they are long, as on the ventral side of the body in Snakes, they are termed splints. 2. a. A slender, moderately long and frequently flexible, rod or slip of wood cut or cleft off and serving for some particular purpose, esp. as a lath or wattle, or prepared for use in some manufacture.The exact meaning in the first two quotations is uncertain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > slender piece for specific purpose splintc1325 splinter1648 minikin1852 sticker1893 minik1899 α. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 84 Splentes, trenchons. c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 449 Traches et trenchous, Sulle-trees and splentes. 1348 in 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1870) App. 65/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 55) XXXIX. 543 [For] splentes [for the vineyard, 7d. For] hordlis, [4s. 6d]. 1410 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Defrondaverunt salices..ad valenciam ii carectat. Splents, pretium viii^d. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 73 Ley splentes vnderneth and al abouȝt the sides, that the Capon touche no thinge of the potte. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Whan the swarme is knyt, take a hyue and splent it within, with thre or foure splentes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Splent for an house, laite. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xi. sig. Ci^v Or wilt thou in a yellow Boxen bole Taste with a woodden splent the sweet lythe honey? 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 459 When the wood is cut into many clefts & splents, fresh and green, they are heaped vp on high [etc.]. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Splent, a lath... The term is still in use in Suffolk. Splents are parts of sticks or poles, either whole or split, placed upright in forming walls, and supported by rizzers [= poles] for receiving the clay daubing. β. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1375 Calathus is a basket ymade of splyntes to bere figes þerinne.1463 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Pro splintes inde habend. pro camera ad finem orientalem ejusdem domus.1483 Court-roll Great Waltham Manor (MS.) Reparabunt..dictam domum et cameram in daubitura, videlicet cum Splynts et Cley mixt. cum stramine.1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. x. f. 84^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I An ouerthwart post in their walles, whereunto they fasten their Splintes or radles.1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A little board or a planke or splint of thin boords.1633 F. Quarles in P. Fletcher Purple Island sig. ¶¶3^v Mans Bodie's like a house: his greater bones Are the main timber; and the lesser ones Are smaller splints.1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 215 The Hive being taken and housed,..loosen the ends of the splints with your Finger.1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 48 The 2 splints of wood spreading each side, directs the point into the fish.1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 14 The bark is lined with small splints of cedar-wood.1864 G. L. M. Strauss et al. England's Workshops 231 The paraffin dipped splints are taken to the woodmatch-framing department.1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 559/1 We take a broom splint sometimes, or a penknife, or a pin. b. Military. (See quot. 1875.) ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Splint, a tapering strip of wood, used to adjust a shell centrally in the bore of a mortar. 3. a. A splinter of wood or stone; a chip or fragment. Now chiefly northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter shiverc1275 spillc1300 spelda1375 splint1398 splinter1398 slicea1400 splinderc1440 spilderc1475 spelder1530 spell1545 splitter1546 spleter1548 spilt1577 shivering1589 skilfer1598 spelcha1605 slifter1606 spilter?1646 slappet1768 α. 1398 [see β. ]. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 7397 Here speres brast In splentes. 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xxxvii Of it selfe this draweth forth thornes or splents of wood runne deepe into the fleshe. 1612 North's Plutarch 1126 So soone as ever they pulled out the head and splent of the dart. β. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xi. ii Þe mater [of snow] is broke in brode parties, as it were splyntes [1495 splentes] of shellis.1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery H iij b My Hart like Ware so lightly did not brooke More then one stroke, ere Cupid brought to passe One splint of skale therof to take away.1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 312/2 To extracte a Thorne or Splinte out of anye wounde without payne.a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 151 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The splints of broken staves fly about their eares.1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. xxii. 163 These things are to bee done when splints of the scull doe pricke the menings.1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 7 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) If he haue not Judgment, the Shivers or Splints of the Whin or hard Stone..will Wound him severely.1865– in Yks. and Lancs. dial. glossaries. 1868 W. Whitman Chants Democratic in Poems 147 I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poisoned splint [etc.]. b. South African. A fragment or broken piece of diamond. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > broken piece of diamond splint1872 1872 C. Rhodes Let. in B. Williams Cecil Rhodes (1921) iv. 29 You must not however think that every diamond one finds is a beauty, the great proportion are nothing but splints. 1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami xxvii. 415 Faithfully carrying out their master's behests, and never robbing him of a single splint. 1903 W. R. Cattelle Precious Stones 79 Beyond the small pieces resulting from cleavages, other fragments are saved which cannot be cut to jewels. Some of these are called ‘splints’, and are used for mechanical purposes or ground to powder. 4. a. Surgery. A thin piece of wood or other more or less rigid material used to hold a fractured or dislocated bone in position during the process of reunion; by extension, any appliance or apparatus serving this purpose. Also, an object used to fasten or immobilize teeth or the jaws.‘Splints vary almost infinitely in form and size, according to the part to which they have to be adapted, and the position in which it is to be held’ ( Penny Cycl. XXII. 368/1). ‘A number of these are specially described in recent Medical Dicts.’ ( N.E.D.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint spelkc1000 splintc1400 shindle1598 splinter1598 junk1617 fish1666 starch bandage1838 starch splint1843 pistol-splint1860 Balkan splint1916 gutter-splint1919 α. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 63 If þat þe prickynge eiþer þe dislocacioun nediþ splentis [v.r. splyntes], make þat þe splentis & byndynge faile aboue þe wounde. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Canalis, a splent for a broken limme. 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 32* b I had rather be packing while my bones be whole, then to be promised golden splents when they are broken. 1634 Lowe's Chirurg. 359 Then it must be banded more slacke, using more bands and no splents. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 181 Afterwards you shall put square Olive Splents upon it not less than four Fingers broad. 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Acharnians v. i, in Comedies 111 Prepare lint, plaister, greasy wool, and splents To bind his ancle up! β. a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xii Bynde it with flexe above..with iiii. splyntes wele ybounde þerto one agaynn an other because þat þe bones shuld not remewe.1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Attelles, little splintes which Surgeons set about ones legge or broken arme.1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. xv. 63 A is a splint of the breadth of three fingers.1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 162 Splints..are made of much paper and then Chips of Wood.c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 107 To each Side of this Bone is fastned a Splint, in Shape like a Bodkin.1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. xxxviii. 204 Splints ought to be made of strong materials, and of a sufficient length to reach beyond the two joints nearest the fracture.1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 44 A splint of wood or whalebone fastened over a fractured toe or finger.1876 C. Gibbon Robin Gray viii His arm was still in splints.1948 Brit. Dental Jrnl. 85 223/1 Removable acrylic bite blocks or splints with clasps were constructed.., so that the bite was opened..and the mandible moved forward.1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. xiv. 144 The main object of periodontal splint design is to make use of sound teeth to give stability to mobile teeth. b. transferred. (See quot. 1875.) ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/2 Splint, a wooden strip for splicing and stiffening a fractured bar or beam. 5. Farriery. a. A callous tumour developing into a bony excrescence formed on the metacarpal bones of a horse's or mule's leg, occurring usually on the inside of the leg along the line of union of the splint-bones with the cannon-bone.through-splint: see thorough splint n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours > tumour spavin1426 ringbonec1465 blood spavin?1523 curb?1523 serew?1523 splint?1523 thorough-serewe?1523 thorough spavin?1523 windgall?1523 bone spavin1566 boneshavea1585 grape1600 surot1601 hough-bony1607 lichen1607 gorge1610 bog-spavin1631 splint-bone1704 splinter1704 star1710 fuseec1720 jardonc1720 osseletc1720 jarde1727 thorough-pin1789 α. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiii^v A splent is the lest sorance that is, that alway contynueth except lampas. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 2^v, in 2nd Pt. Herball I thinke verely that the bath of brimstone..will heale splentes, spavines, and all knobbes. 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. I1^v A Horse cannot be lustie at legges; by reason that either his hoofes bee not good, or that there be Splents, or any other Eye-sore about the nether Ioynt. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 152/1 The Splent..is a spungy hard gristly bone..which by making the Horse stark, causeth him to stumble. 1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xvi. 305 Bladders, Wind-galls, Splents, and other Swellings in the Legs and Joints. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. ii. 67 If there be large Splents, they may truly be called Blemishes. 1830 ‘J. Hinds’ Osmer's Treat. Horse (ed. 5) Index 267 Splents cause lameness. 1859 Blackwood's Mag. 85 455 The animal's legs were so enlarged by splents that they were literally cylindrical. β. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C A leg both straight and cleane, That hath nor spauen, splint nor flawe.1677 London Gaz. No. 1183/4 An Iron gray Gelding, having on each Leg a Splint.1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 18 Feel his Legs, Master, neither Splint, Spavin, nor Wind-gall.1724 London Gaz. No. 6266/4 Two large Splints on his two fore Legs.1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 364 The Splint is a fixed callous Excrescence..growing upon the Flat of the Inside or Outside, and sometimes both, of the Shank Bone.1831 W. Youatt Horse xiii. 244 The splint is invariably found on the outside of the small bone, and generally on the inside of the leg.1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 312 There's a splint on the off-leg! b. The growth of this, as a specific malady in horses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > caused by tumours ringbone1362 spavinc1500 curb?1523 thorough splint1577 splint1598 gourding1610 spavie1706 gourdiness1721 1598 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse (new ed.) sig. B2^v If he haue outward diseases, as the spuing, splent, ring-bone, windgall. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 38 Mallenders, splent, serewe, Ring-bone, and such like infirmities in the Fore-feet. 1704 Dict. Rusticum Splint is a Disease in an Horse. 1831 W. Youatt Horse xix. 365 Splent.—It depends entirely on the situation of the bony tumour.., whether it is to be considered as unsoundness. ?1847 T. Brown Man. Mod. Farriery 114 It is difficult to conceive how splent should appear on the outside of the small bones. †6. = tent n.³ 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > plug, pad, or swab pillowa1400 plumaciola1400 tentc1400 pulvillus?a1425 pledget?1540 spledget1563 penicillus1575 dossil1585 splint1607 plager1656 penicil1657 sindon1657 wick1658 pad1767 tampon1848 tangle-tent1879 Gamgee pad1885 plombe1904 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 187 When the vineger is consumed, then put in the Opponax, and of both together make like taynters or splints and thurst [sic] them into the wound. †7. A separate turn or coil in a spiral. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > a spiral > a single coil in a spiral or helix splint1607 wreath1634 spiral1728 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 717 The splents of the spire are smooth and not deep, being for the most part like vnto the wreathing turnings of Snailes. 8. (See quot. 1883 and splint coal n.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > splintery coal splint1789 splint coal1789 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 218 Sometimes masses of splent or parrot..will be found upon the side or at the bottom of a ravine. 1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 4 The Coals are partly Smithy Coals, and partly Rich Caking Splents. 1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 4 There are several Seams of Dry Splents. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 49 Splint, coarse grey-looking coal... Suitable for burning lime, and the better sorts for steam purposes. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 231 Splint or Splent, a laminated, coarse, inferior, dull-looking, hard coal, producing much white ash; intermediate between cannel and common pit coal. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 6/3 The prices fixed for splint are 2s. higher. attributive.1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 57 Where the men had first to descend one of these stairs..to the splint seam. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, chiefly in sense 2, as splint-cutter, splint-cutting, splint-machine, splint-plane; splint-like adj. See also splint-bone n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Splint-cutter, a shaper and maker of splints. 1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 141 The splint~like bones in the leg of the horse. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/1 Splint-machine, a machine for riving or planing small slats or splints for use in making woven-slat blinds, baskets [etc.]. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/1 Splint-plane, one for riving splints from a block or board. 1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism 385 We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splintlike bones. C2. In the sense ‘made or formed of splints’ (in sense 2), as splint-basket, splint-bottom, splint-chair, splint letter-case, splint rocker; splint-bottomed adj. ΚΠ 1850 Knickerbocker 36 73 She wiped out the seats of some splint-bottomed chairs with her calico apron. 1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island I. iv. 19 Rows of old fashioned splint-bottomed chairs against the wall. 1867 Summer in L. Goldthwaite's Life 175 The finest and whitest and most graceful of all possible little splint baskets. 1871 B. Taylor in Hansen-Taylor & Scudder Life & Lett. (1884) II. xxiii. 564 An old-fashioned, high-backed splint-chair. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 68 The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom armchair, was dozing. 1889 M. E. Wilkins Mor. Exigency (1891) 28 There were a few poor attempts at adornment on the walls; a splint letter-case, a motto worked in worsteds [etc.]. 1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber iv. 36 A comfortable armchair with splint-bottom. 1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber v. 46 Their splint-bottomed armchairs. 1922 M. B. Houston Witchman i. 17 Straight hickory chairs and a splint rocker were set at irregular angles about the room. C3. splint-armour n. armour made of splints (sense 1a). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > armour formed of splints splint-armour1852 1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 131 Écrevisse,..splint-armour. 1885 H. A. Dillon Fairholt's Costume in Eng. (ed. 3) II. (Gloss.) s.v. Splint armour for the legs..is common in German effigies. splint-boot n. a special boot for a horse suffering from a splint (sense 5a). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for horses > boot or stocking splint-boot1862 poultice boot1875 stocking1875 poultice-shoe1888 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4693 Web, Fetlock, Speedy, Splint,..and Strengthening Boots. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). splintv. Brit. /splɪnt/, U.S. /splɪnt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s splent, 1500s splente. β. 1600s– splint. Etymology: < splint n. Compare Swedish splinta to split or splinter. †1. transitive. To cover, furnish, or construct with splints or thin strips of wood, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with splints splint?a1400 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3264 A-bowte cho whirllide a whele with hir whitte hondez... The spekes..was splentide alle with speltis of siluer. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Whan the swarme is knyt, take a hyue and splent it within, with thre or foure splentes. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. ii. xv. 110 Then you shall make a studde wall, which shall be splinted. 1632–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 697 The Particions and studyes, to be splented and Clayed betweene the Studds. 1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xlviii. §527 The partition wall he buildeth up even, being splented and dawbed with clay-mortar. 2. a. To adjust, bind, or fit a surgical splint to (a fractured bone, etc.); to put into splints; to hold firmly in position, to secure, by means of a splint or splints. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint spelkc1000 splint1543 splinter1720 spell1886 α. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. vi. f. 180^v/1 Yf the dislocation be with a fracture,..after restauracion, ye shall bynde it & splent it. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 143^v Their legges yf they happen to be broken,..being wrapped fyrst in wooll..and afterward splented. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxxxix. 442 Then splent it [a broken bone] with three broad, smooth, & strong splents. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xi. 243 Clap..over that a peece of Leather, cut and shaped for the purpose, and so splent it to keepe it fast on. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck (at cited word) Spalcken, to Splent as when a Chirurgian binds up broken Bones or Limmes. β. 1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court B ij To heale the infected, to splint the spreined, to reduce the wandring.1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 166 The member being onely artificiallie bound, and splinted orderly.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Surbating Stop up his Foot therewith,..covering it with a Piece of an old Shoe, and splint it.1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 25 Poser une attelle, to splint, to put on a splint.1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. 259 If a broken limb be not splinted the ends may be forced through the skin. †b. To secure or keep in (a dressing, etc.) with a splint or splints. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > splint > secure with splints splint1610 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. ci. 385 With a little tow stoppe all the foote, and especially the frush, and splent it in so as it may not fall out. c. figurative and transferred. To strengthen or support as if with splints. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > as with splints splinta1634 a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) v. 70 An Emperour might die standing, why not I? Nay without help, in which I will exceed him; For he died splinted with his chamber Groomes. 1832 Examiner 721/2 He wants strength of character;—but authority will come in aid of his peculiar deficiency, and splint him up. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 108/2 Inner and outer layers of epithelial tissue, splinted by connective tissue.., are always developed. †d. To stop with a splint. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking to stop a person's mouthc1175 stilla1225 to keep ina1420 stifle1496 to knit up1530 to muzzle (up) the mouth1531 choke1533 muzzle?1542 to tie a person's tongue1544 tongue-tiea1555 silence1592 untongue1598 to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605 to bite in1608 gaga1616 to swear downa1616 to laugh down1616 stifle1621 to cry down1623 unworda1627 clamour1646 splint1648 to take down1656 snap1677 stick1708 shut1809 to shut up1814 to cough down1823 to scrape down1855 to howl down1872 extinguish1878 hold1901 shout1924 to pipe down1926 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Spalcken den mondt, to Gagge or Splent the mouth. †3. a. To cut or split (wood, etc.) into splints or splinters; to cleave or slit apart or in two. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] to-cleavec888 cleavea1100 forcleavec1290 shidec1315 rivec1330 sheara1340 carvec1374 slivea1400 thrusche1483 porfend1490 splet1530 share?1566 spleet1585 splint1591 split1595 diverberate1609 fissure1656 spall1841 balkanize1942 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Desgajar To cleaue a sunder, to slit, to splent. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Schiantare,..to riue, to splint, to shiuer. 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah iv. 68 He looketh whether any planke were rift or splint in two. †b. (See quot. 1740) Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 167 Where the Horse is young and fond of running, it would splint him or knock him up (as we say) if the Rider were to make his Flourishes upon his Back like a Rope-dancer. †4. intransitive. Of the heart: To burst or split. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of heart > have disorder of heart [verb (intransitive)] > burst splint1594 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 102 Hard heart of mine why splintst? why breakst not thou? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325v.?a1400
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