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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..

Extradotal :: Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property..

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

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..

Ghostfish :: Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

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

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..

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..

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

Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck.

Cowry :: Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

Lowry :: Lowry (n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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