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of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

ect (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.…

Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

Awry. [Obs.] Skelton.

ffect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified. I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. Shak. Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. Jer. Taylor.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]

That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. [Obs.] His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown. Dryden.

An ant. Emmet hunter (Zoöl.), the wryneck.

The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. Abbott.

Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.

To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

A pale ubspotted variety of the wrymouth.

To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. Burrill.

least, in satisfaction of dower. The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised. Shak.

Crooked; awry. [Obs.] "This is clean kam." Shak.

The wryneck.