Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPLASH'Y, a.

Full of dirty water; wet; wet and muddy.

SPLAY, a.

Displayed; spread; turned outward. – Sidney.

SPLAY, n. [or v.]

for Display. [Not in use.]

SPLAY, v.t. [See Display.]

1. To dislocate or break a horse's shoulder bone. – Johnson.
2. To spread. [Little used.] – Mease.

SPLAY'ED, a.²

In architecture, cut off or oblique, as an angle.

SPLAY-ED, pp.

Dislocated, as a horse's shoulder-bone.

SPLAY-FOOT, or SPLAY-FOOT-ED, a.

Having the foot turned outward; having a wide foot.

SPLAY-MOUTH, n.

A wide mouth; a month stretched by design.

SPLEEN, n. [L. splen; Gr. σπλην.]

1. The milt; a spungy viscus situated in the left hypochondrium, near the fundus of the stomach, and under the ribs. It has an oval figure. Its use is not known. The ancient supposed this to be the seat of melancholy, anger or vexation. Hence,
2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor. Thus we say to vent one's spleen. In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. – Pope.
3. A fit of anger. – Shak.
4. A fit; a sudden motion. [Not used.] – Shak.
5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. Bodies chang'd to recent forms by spleen. – Pope.
6. Immoderate merriment. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SPLEEN-ED, a.

Deprived of the spleen. – Arbuthnot.

SPLEEN-FUL, or SPLEEN-ISH, a.

1. Angry; peevish; fretful. Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny. – Shak.
2. Melancholy; hypochondriacal. – Pope.

SPLEEN-ISH, a.

Spleeny; affected with spleen.

SPLEEN-ISH-LY, adv.

In a spleenish manner.

SPLEEN-ISH-NESS, n.

State of being spleenish.

SPLEEN-LESS, a.

Kind; gentle; mild. [Obs.] – Chapman.

SPLEEN-WORT, n. [L. splenium.]

A plant of the genus Asplenium; miltwaste.

SPLEEN-Y, a.

1. Angry; peevish; fretful. A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to / Our cause. – Shak.
2. Melancholy; affected with nervous complaints.

SPLEN'DENT, a. [L. splendens, splendeo, to shine.]

1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. – Newton.
2. Very conspicuous; illustrious. – Wotton.

SPLEN'DID, a. [L. splendidus, from splendeo, to shine; Fr. splendide; It. splendido; W. ysplan, from plan, clear. See Plain.]

1. Properly, shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun. Hence,
2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession; a splendid equipage; splendid feast or entertainment.
3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; as, a splendid victory.
4. Illustrious; famous; celebrated; as, a splendid reputation.

SPLEN'DID-LY, adv.

1. With great brightness or brilliant light.
2. Magnificently; sumptuously; richly; as, a house splendidly furnished.
3. With great pomp or show. The king was splendidly attended.

SPLEN'DOR, n. [L. from the Celtic; W. ysplander, from pleiniaw, dyspleiniaw, to cast rays, from plan, a ray, a cion or shoot, a plane; whence plant. See Plant and Planet.]

1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; as, the splendor of the sun.
2. Great show of richness and elegance; magnificence; the splendor of equipage or of royal robes.
3. Pomp; parade; as, the splendor of a procession or of ceremonies.
4. Brilliance; eminence; as, the splendor of a victory.

SPLEN'DROUS, a.

Having splendor. [Not in use.] – Drayton.

SPLEN'ET-IC, a. [L. spleneticus.]

Affected with spleen; peevish; fretful. You humor me when I am sick; / Why not when I am splenetic? – Pope.

SPLEN'ET-IC, n.

A person affected with spleen. – Tatler.

SPLEN'IC, a. [Fr. splenique.]

Belonging to the spleen; as, the splenic vein. – Ray.