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Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

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

Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.

Portion :: Portion (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.

Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (n.) The wryneck.

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

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

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

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

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.

Tocher :: Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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