wry

6 definitions found

wry - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wry \Wry\, v. t. [AS. wre['o]n.]
     To cover. [Obs.]
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           Wrie you in that mantle.                 --Chaucer.
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  Wry \Wry\, a. [Compar. Wrier; superl. Wriest.] [Akin to OE.
     wrien to twist, to bend, AS. wrigian to tend towards, to
     drive.]
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     1. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
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     2. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected;
        out of place; as, wry words.
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              Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who
              never take up an old idea without some extravagance
              in its application.                   --Landor.
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     3. Wrested; perverted.
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              He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers.
                                                    --Atterbury.
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     Wry face, a distortion of the countenance indicating
        impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.
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  Wry \Wry\, v. i.
     1. To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
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     2. To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to
        turn side; to swerve.
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              This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. --Chaucer.
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              How many
              Must murder wives much better than themselves
              For wrying but a little!              --Shak.
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  Wry \Wry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wried; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Wrying.] [OE. wrien. See Wry, a.]
     To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. --Sir P.
     Sidney.
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           Guests by hundreds, not one caring
           If the dear host's neck were wried.      --R. Browning.
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wry - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wry
      adj 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, wry]
      2: bent to one side; "a wry neck"

wry - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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