A piece of wood split off; a thin piece (in proportion to its thickness,) of wood or other solid substance, rent from the main body; as splinters of a ships side or mast, rent off by a shot.

In surgery, a thin piece of wood or other substance, used to hold or confine a broken bone when set.

A piece of bone rent off in a fracture.

To split or rend into long thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

To confine with splinters, as a broken limb.

To be split or rent into long pieces.