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t; to wring. "With writhing [turning] of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. Milton. Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. Dryden. His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. Tennyson.

Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

ue trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

l or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

incture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.

by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.

To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser.

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing. "Earnestly wringing Waverley's hand." Sir W. Scott. "Wring him by the nose." Shak. [His steed] so sweat that men might him wring. Chaucer. The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.…

To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.

Writhen.