AVOWRY | • avowry n. (Law) The act of avowing and justifying in one’s own right the distraining of goods. • avowry n. (Historical) A form of medieval patronage in which colonial tenants, often from criminal backgrounds… • avowry n. (Ecclesiastical) Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office. |
AWRY | • awry adv. Obliquely, crookedly; askew. • awry adv. Perversely, improperly. • awry adj. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. |
CHOWRY | • chowry n. A flyflap or whisk originally made from the bushy tail of a yak. • CHOWRY n. (Hindi) a whisk to keep off flies, used in the East Indies, also CHOWRI. |
COWRY | • cowry n. Alternative spelling of cowrie. • COWRY n. a glossy seashell, also COWRIE. |
DOWRY | • dowry n. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. • dowry n. (Less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride’s family: bride price. • dowry n. (Obsolete) Dower. |
LOWRY | • lowry n. An open boxcar used on railroads. • Lowry prop.n. A surname transferred from the given name. • Lowry prop.n. A city and town in Minnesota. |
OUTLAWRY | • outlawry n. (Law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. • outlawry n. The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness. • OUTLAWRY n. the state of being an outlaw. |
WRY | • wry adj. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). • wry adj. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. • wry adj. Twisted, bent, crooked. |
WRYBILL | • wrybill n. Anarhynchus frontalis, a species of small bird in the plover family Charadriidae, unique in having a… • WRYBILL n. a New Zealand bird related to the plovers. |
WRYBILLS | • wrybills n. Plural of wrybill. • WRYBILL n. a New Zealand bird related to the plovers. |
WRYER | • wryer adj. Comparative form of wry: more wry. • WRY adj. twisted. |
WRYEST | • wryest adj. Superlative form of wry: most wry. • WRY adj. twisted. |
WRYING | • wrying v. Present participle of wry. • WRY v. to give a twist to. |
WRYLY | • wryly adv. In a wry manner. • WRY adv. twisted. |
WRYNECK | • wryneck n. Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their… • wryneck n. (Medicine, dated) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by… • WRYNECK n. either of two birds of the genus Jynx, characterized by their habit of twisting and writhing the neck when disturbed. |
WRYNECKS | • wrynecks n. Plural of wryneck. • WRYNECK n. either of two birds of the genus Jynx, characterized by their habit of twisting and writhing the neck when disturbed. |
WRYNESS | • wryness n. The state of being wry. • WRYNESS n. the quality of being wry. |
WRYNESSES | • wrynesses n. Plural of wryness. • WRYNESS n. the quality of being wry. |
WRYTHEN | • wrythen adj. Obsolete form of writhen. • WRYTHEN adj. (archaic) twisted, convoluted, also WRITHEN. |