transitive verb, intransitive verb

1. to spread out or apart; expand; extend: often with out
2. to make or be beveled or sloping

Etymology: ME splaien, aphetic < displaien, to display

noun

1. a sloping or beveled surface or angle, as of the side of a doorway
2. a spreading; expansion; enlargement

Etymology: < the v.

adjective

1. sloping, spreading, or turning outward
2. broad and flat
3. awkwardly awry