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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..

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose..

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

Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth..

Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (n.) The wryneck.

Askew :: Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry..

Wryness :: Wryness (n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted..

Jewry :: "Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter..

Cowry :: Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

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

Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry..

Dot :: Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Reversal :: Reversal (n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

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