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wried, ppl. a.|raɪd|
[f. wry v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Turned aside; deflected, diverted.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxv. iv, A vaine deceiver, Whose wryed footing not aright directed Wandreth in error.
2. That has undergone contortion or twisting; writhed, contorted.
1576A. Hall Acc. Quarrel, etc. (1816) I. 100 His colour..crymson, his eyes fyry, his visage wryed unnaturally. 1598–9B. Jonson Case is Altered ii. iv, Vsing their wryed countenances in stead of a vice, to turn [etc.]. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 342 The Quoiter..who stands wryed in a Gesture ready to deliver. 1676Hobbes Iliad xxiii. 656 A silver cup That crookt and wryed was about the brim. 1887Morris Odyss. ix. 372 His thick neck [was] wryed and twisted. 1891Kipling Life's Handicap 106 His mouth was wried with agony.
transf.1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Prol. 178 Vsing his wryed lookes (In nature of a vice) to wrest and turne The good aspect of those that shall sit neere him. |