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Exigent :: Exigent (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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..

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..

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

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

Torticollis :: Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

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

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

Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.

Mow :: Mow (n.) A wry face.

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..

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

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

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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

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

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

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..

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