Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:

The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

* , chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}

To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

(Shakespeare)

(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

(Farrow)

(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.

(obsolete) To discover; to descry.

* Chapman

And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

Verb

(head)

(splay)

Verb

(en verb)

To display; to spread.

* Gascoigne

our ensigns splayed

To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.

To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.