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

Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry..

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

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

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

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower..

Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

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