Definition of wry

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

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Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.
Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck.
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..
Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.
Wrie :: Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry.
Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The state of being an outlaw.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Extradotal :: Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property..
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..
Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.
Moe :: Moe (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.
Exigent :: Exigent (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
Skew :: Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.
Squabble :: Squabble (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up..
Mouth :: Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
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..
Fleer :: Fleer () To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout..
Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.
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..
Jewry :: "Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter..
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