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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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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..

Dower :: Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Dot :: Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.

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

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

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

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

Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.

Extradotal :: Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property..

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

Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck.

Reversal :: Reversal (n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..