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

Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.

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..

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

Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

Yunx :: Yunx (n.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

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..

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

Moe :: Moe (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.

Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance..

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..

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

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..

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

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.

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

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

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..

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