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

Exigent :: Exigent (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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..

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

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

Dower :: Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.

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

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

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.

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

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

Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

Inlaw :: Inlaw (v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Wrymouth :: Wrymouth (n.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish..

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words..

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..

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

Atwirl :: Atwirl (a. & adv.) Twisted; distorted; awry.

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