Definition of wry

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

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Utlary :: Utlary (n.) Outlawry.
Portion :: Portion (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
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..
Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
Inlaw :: Inlaw (v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.
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..
Wrymouth :: Wrymouth (n.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish..
Chowry :: Chowry (n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies..
Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..
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..
Ewry :: Ewry (n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..
Mouth :: Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
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..
Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.
Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.
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