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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wry \Wry\, verb (used with an object) [AS. wre['o]n.] To cover. [Obs.]
Wrie you in that mantle. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wry \Wry\, adjective [Compar. {Wrier}; superl. {Wriest}.] [Akin to OE. wrien to twist, to bend, AS. wrigian to tend towards, to drive.]
1. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
2. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. --Landor.
3. Wrested; perverted.
He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. --Atterbury.
{Wry face}, a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wry \Wry\, verb (used without an object)
1. To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
2. To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. --Chaucer.
How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little! --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wry \Wry\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrying}.] [OE. wrien. See {Wry}, adjective] To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. --Sir P. Sidney.
Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried. --R. Browning.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wry
adjective
1: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: {dry}, {ironic}, {ironical}]
2: bent to one side; "a wry neck"
3: disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman [syn: {sardonic}] [also: {wried}, {wryest}, {wryer}, {wriest}, {wrier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "wry": agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper-jawed, wrest, wring, yaw-ways
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