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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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