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

Chowry :: Chowry (n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies..

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..

Peabird :: Peabird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

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.

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

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

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

Lowry :: Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

Wrythen :: Wrythen (p. p.) Writhen.

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

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

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

Mow :: Mow (n.) A wry face.

Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

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

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

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