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Cowry :: Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

Ewry :: Ewry (n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.

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.

Utlary :: Utlary (n.) Outlawry.

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

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

Weet-bird :: Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.

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..

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

Mop :: Mop (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.

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..

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

Inlaw :: Inlaw (v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.

Peabird :: Peabird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

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

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

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words..

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..

Lowry :: Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

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