Definition of wry

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

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Skew :: Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.
Utlary :: Utlary (n.) Outlawry.
Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Wrythen :: Wrythen (p. p.) Writhen.
Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..
Jewry :: "Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter..
Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (n.) The wryneck.
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..
Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance..
Moe :: Moe (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.
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.
Cowlick :: Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow..
Mop :: Mop (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.
Exigent :: Exigent (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
Tocher :: Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
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..
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower..
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