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

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

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

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

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

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

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

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words..

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..

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