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Mouth :: Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..

Lowry :: Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.

Utlary :: Utlary (n.) Outlawry.

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right..

Cowlick :: Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow..

Proscription :: Proscription (n.) The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription..

Wrying :: Wrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wr.

Weet-bird :: Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck.

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.

Contortion :: Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face..

Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The state of being an outlaw.

Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..

Extradotal :: Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property..

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