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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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.

Long-tongue :: Long-tongue (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..

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

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

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

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..

Tocher :: Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.

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

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

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

Peabird :: Peabird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

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