Wrie you in that mantle. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wrested; perverted. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wry face, a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

How many
Must murder wives much better than themselves
For wrying but a little! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Guests by hundreds, not one caring
If the dear host's neck were wried. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a person suffering from torticollis. [ PJC ]

3. (Zool.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (Jynx 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. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]