Now dial. [f. SPLAY v.2] Spayed; having the ovaries excised.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIX. Comment., Vnlesse you will take it for a splayed or gelded Sow.
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., V. i. (1668), 101. The males will make … excellent Bacon or Pork, and the females which are called splayd-guelts, will do the like.
1768. Pennant, Brit. Zool., I. 31. The meat of a splayed goat.
1847. Halliw. s.v., Nothing could have any chance of running against them but a splayed bitch.
fig. 1698. [R. Fergusson], View Eccles., 49. The Report has wretchedly clipt what the Display had coyned, and the Display is now splay’d.
