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

Tonguebird :: Tonguebird (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..

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..

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

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

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..

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..

Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.

Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.

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

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..

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth..

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

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

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

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

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

Awry :: Awry (adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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