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

Askew :: Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry..

Utlary :: Utlary (n.) Outlawry.

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..

Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (n.) The wryneck.

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.

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

Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Atwirl :: Atwirl (a. & adv.) Twisted; distorted; awry.

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

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