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

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

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..

Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

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

Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Contortion :: Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

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

Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

Wrythen :: Wrythen (p. p.) Writhen.

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