Vocabulary : Splint to Split dynamometer

Splint : A piece split off; a splinter. ;; A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. ;; A splint bone. ;; A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. ;; One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. ;; Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. ;; To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. ;; To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
Splinted : of Splint
Splinter : To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. ;; To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. ;; To become split into long pieces. ;; 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.
Splintered : of Splinter
Splintering : of Splinter
Splinterproof : Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.
Splintery : Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
Splinting : of Splint
Split : Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl. ;; Any of the dents of a reed. ;; Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current. ;; Short for Split shot or stroke. ;; The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind. ;; A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass. ;; Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc. ;; Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 10/ is a split quotation. ;; Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary. ;; of Split ;; To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to
Split dynamometer : An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
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