wried, ppl. a.
(raɪd)
[f. wry v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Turned aside; deflected, diverted.
| c 1586 C'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.
| 1576 A. Hall Acc. Quarrel, etc. (1816) I. 100 His colour..crymson, his eyes fyry, his visage wryed unnaturally. 1598–9 B. Jonson Case is Altered ii. iv, Vsing their wryed countenances in stead of a vice, to turn [etc.]. 1638 Mayne Lucian (1664) 342 The Quoiter..who stands wryed in a Gesture ready to deliver. 1676 Hobbes Iliad xxiii. 656 A silver cup That crookt and wryed was about the brim. 1887 Morris Odyss. ix. 372 His thick neck [was] wryed and twisted. 1891 Kipling Life's Handicap 106 His mouth was wried with agony. |
| transf. 1599 B. 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. |