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- Splinter - n. - To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- Splinter - v. i. - To become split into long pieces.
- 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.
- Splinter - n. - To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
- Splintered - imp. & p. p. - of Splinter
- Splintering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Splinter
- Splinterproof - a. - Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.
- Splintery - a. - Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spawl - n. - A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.
- 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.
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