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Outlawry :: Outlawry (n.) The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection..

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

Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

Contortion :: Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face..

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Skew :: Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

Peabird :: Peabird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Extradotal :: Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property..

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

Portion :: Portion (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.

Mouth :: Mouth (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Yunx :: Yunx (n.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

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..

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

Weet-bird :: Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.

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

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..

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

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