See Also: Splint(medicine)
splint(2)(dictionary)
splint(1)(dictionary)
Splint(health)
air splint(medicine)
cap splint(medicine)
splint(dictionary)
inflatable splint(medicine)
dynamic splint(medicine)
contact splint(medicine)

maxim (oh) and splint(1) (iou)


maxim (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: maxime, from Latin maximus; MAXIMUM2]
a well-known phrase or saying, especially one that gives a rule for sensible behaviour

splint(1) (iou)



splint noun & adjective. ME.
[Middle Low German splente, splinte, Middle Dutch splinte (Dutch splint): rel. to SPLINTER noun, but no cognates are recorded.]
A. noun.
Hist. Any of the plates or strips of overlapping metal making up a section of medieval armour; spec. either of a pair of armour plates for protecting the elbows. ME.
A long thin (rigid or flexible) strip of wood used in basketwork etc.; a lath; spec. a thin piece of wood or Other material used to light a fire, pipe, etc. ME.
A fragment, a chip, a splinter. Now chiefly north. LME.
b. spec. A fragment of diamond. S. Afr. L19.
Surgery. A strip of rigid material used to support and immobilize an injury, esp. a broken limb etc. when set. LME.
Veterinary Medicine. Growth or hardening due to damage of the ligaments attached to the splint-bones of a horse's leg, usu. on the inside of the leg along the line of union of the splint-bones with the cannon-bone; an instance of this. E16.
In full splint-coal. A hard bituminous laminated coal which burns with great heat. L18.
Comb.: splint-bone (a) = sense 5 above; (b) either of the two small metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the leg of a horse, lying behind and close to the cannon-bone or shank.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or made from splints. M19.
splinty adjective (now rare) of a splintery texture; of the Nature of splint or splint coal: E17.