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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..

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

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

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

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..

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

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

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..

Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance..

Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The state of being an outlaw.

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

Skew :: Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

Cowlick :: Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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