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

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

Mop :: Mop (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.

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

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

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

Wry :: Wry (v. t.) To cover.

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..

Yunx :: Yunx (n.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

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..

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

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..

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

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

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

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose..

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..

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower..

Wrie :: Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry.

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..

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