Definition of wry

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

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Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.
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..
Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.
Wrythen :: Wrythen (p. p.) Writhen.
Portion :: Portion (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
Mow :: Mow (n.) A wry face.
Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.
Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..
Cowry :: Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.
Wrie :: Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry.
Dower :: Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
Inlaw :: Inlaw (v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The state of being an outlaw.
Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Jewry :: "Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter..
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..
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..
Proscription :: Proscription (n.) The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription..
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