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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..

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..

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..

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

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection..

Mow :: Mow (n.) A wry face.

Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.

Chowry :: Chowry (n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies..

Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

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

Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (n.) The wryneck.

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

Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

Skew :: Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

Wrie :: Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry.

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..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

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