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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

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

Wryness :: Wryness (n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted..

Wrying :: Wrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wr.

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.

Mop :: Mop (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.

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

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..

Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely..

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..

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..

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