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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wry \Wry\, a. [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.
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