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wry-faced
wry-faced, a. (stress variable) [f. wry a. 2.] Having the face out of line with the neck and chest; also, that has or makes a wry face.1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 14 Antiphilus made a very noble one [i.e. picture of a satyr] in a Panthers skin, calling it Aposcopon, that is, Wri-faced. 1611 Cotgr., ...
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wry
▪ I. wry, n. (raɪ) Also 5–6 wrye. [f. wry v.2 or a.] † 1. on wry or upon wry, = awry adv. Sc. Obs.1375 Barbour Bruce iv. 705 Thair bemys strekit air, Owthir all evin, or on wry. 1423 Jas. I Kingis Q. lxxiii, To the colde stone my hede on wrye I laid. 1508 Dunbar Flyting 175 (Maitland Fol. MS.), With...
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cash
▪ I. cash, n.1 (kæʃ) [ad. F. casse ‘a box, case, chest, to carrie or kepe wares in, also a Marchants cash or counter’ (Cotgr.), or its source It. cassa ‘a chest,..also, a merchants cashe or counter’ (Florio 1598):—L. capsa coffer, case. Mod.F. has caisse, Sp. caxa, Pg. caixa: the phonetic history of...
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