Definition of wry

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

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Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.
Moe :: Moe (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.
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..
Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.
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..
Across :: Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
Wry :: Wry (superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth..
Chowry :: Chowry (n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies..
Tocher :: Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.
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.
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..
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; 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..
Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck.
Mouth :: Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
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..
Contortion :: Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face..
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