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Writhen
(gcide) | Writhe \Writhe\, v. t. [imp. Writhed; p. p. Writhed, Obs. or
Poetic Writhen; p. pr. & vb. n. Writhing.] [OE. writhen,
AS. wr[imac]?an to twist; akin to OHG. r[imac]dan, Icel.
r[imac]?a, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest,
Wroth.]
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1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to
distort; to wring. "With writhing [turning] of a pin."
--Chaucer.
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Then Satan first knew pain,
And writhed him to and fro. --Milton.
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Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown.
--Dryden.
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His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.
--Tennyson.
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2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
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The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part
of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are
writhed. --Hooker.
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3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.]
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The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of
their sovereign in writhing money from them by every
species of oppression. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Writhen
(gcide) | Writhen \Writh"en\, a.
Having a twisted distorted from.
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A writhen staff his step unstable guides. --Fairfax.
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writhen
(wn) | writhen
adj 1: twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad
contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"-
Walter scott [syn: contorted, writhed, writhen] |
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writheneck
(gcide) | Wryneck \Wry"neck\, n. (Med.)
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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.
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2. a person suffering from torticollis.
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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.
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writhen
(wn) | writhen
adj 1: twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad
contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"-
Walter scott [syn: contorted, writhed, writhen] |
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