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Her mouth she writh'd, her forehead taught to frown, 
Her eyes to sparkle fires to love unknown, 
Her sallow cheeks her envious mind did shew, 
And ev’ry feature spoke aloud the curstness of a shrew. 
Dri/den. 
To twist with violence. 
Amid the plaited scales it took its course, 
And in the spinal marrow spent its force ; 
The monster hiss’d aloud, and rag’d in vain, 
And writh'd his body to and fro with pain; 
He bit the dart. Addison. 
To wrest; to force by violence; to torture; to distort.— 
The reason which he yieldeth, showelh the least part of 
his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. 
Hooker. —To twist. 
The King of heav’n 
Bar’d his red arm, and launching from the sky 
His writhen bolt, not shaking empty smoke, 
Down to the deep abyss the flaming felon strook. Dry den. 
To WRITHE, v. n. To be convolved with agony or 
torture. 
Let each be broken on the rack; 
Then, with what life remains, impaled, and left 
To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison. 
To WRITHLE, v. a. To .wrinkle; to corrugate. Ob¬ 
solete. 
But see! this whitenesse is obscure, 
Cynthia spotted, she impure; 
Her body writhel'd, and her eyes 
Departing lights at obsequies. Lovelace. 
WRITING, s. A legal instrument; as, the writings of 
an estate.—Gentlemen keep writings in their closets, ladies 
medicines. Seller —A composure; a book.—They thought 
no other writings in the world should be studied. Hooker. 
—Such arguments had an invincible force with those pagan 
philosophers, who became Christians, as we find in most of 
their writings. Addison. —A written paper of any kind. 
In at his windows throw 
Writings, all tending to the great opinion 
That Rome holds of his name. Shakspearc. 
WRI'TINGMASTER, s. One who teaches to write.— 
The facility of which I spoke consists not in bold strokes, 
it makes not a great effect at a distance; that sort of free¬ 
dom belongs rather to a writingmaster than a painter. Dry- 
den. 
WRITTEN. The participle passive of write. 
Their doctrine and their story written left, 
They die. Milton. 
Language is a connexion of audible signs, the most apt in 
nature for communication of our thoughts: written language 
is a description of the said audible signs, by signs visible. 
Holder. 
WRITTLE, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Essex. It was formerly a market town. King 
John had a palace here, some vestiges of which are still to be 
seen; 2k miles west of Chelmsford. Population 1830. 
WRI'ZZLED, adj. Wrinkled. 
Her wrizzled skin, as rough as maple rind, 
So scabby was, that would have loath’d all womankind. 
Spenser. 
WROCKWARDINE, a parish of England, in Salop. 
WROKEN. The part. pass, of To wreak. 
Who lookt a little up at that his speech, 
Yet would not let their battell so be broken, 
Both greedie fierse on other to be wroken. Spenser. 
WRONG, s. [ppang, Saxon.] An injury; a designed 
or known detriment; not right; not justice.—She resolved 
to spend all her years, which her youth promised should be 
many, in bewailing the wrong, and yet praying for the 
wrongdoer. Sidney. —Error; not right; not truth. 
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Be not blindly guided by the throng, 
The multitude is always in the wrong. Roscommon. 
Here was wrong on both sides; and what would follow 
but confusion. Leslie. 
WRONG, adj. Not morally right; not just; not agree¬ 
able to propriety or truth ; not true.—I find you are an in¬ 
vincible Amazon, since you will overcome, though in a 
wrong matter. Sidney. —If it be right to comply with the 
wrong, then it is wrong to comply with the right. Leslie. 
—Not physically right; unfit; unsuitable. 
Of Glo’ster’s treachery, 
And of the loyal service of his son, 
When I inform’d him, then he call’d me sot, 
And told me I had turn’d the wrong side out. Shakspearc. 
We never think of the main business of life, till a vain re¬ 
pentance minds us of it at the wrong end. L' Estrange.—- 
Acting improperly. 
Who want, while thro’ black life they dream along, 
Sense to be right, and passion to be wrong. Young. 
WRONG, ado. Not rightly ; amiss.—If he go wrong, 
she will give him over to his own ruin. Eccl. —A thousand 
odd capricios, men’s minds are acted by, may make one man 
quote another man’s words wrong. Locke. —Ten censure 
wrong, for one that writes amiss. Pope. 
To WRONG, v. a. To injure; to use unjustly, either 
by doing injury, or imputing evil without justice.—So wor¬ 
thy a part of divine service we should greatly wrong if we 
did not esteem preaching as the blessed ordinance of God. 
Hooker. 
WRONGDO'ER, s. An injurious person.—She resolved 
to spend all her years in bewailing the wrong, and yet pray¬ 
ing for the wrongdoer. Sidney. —If any seat be taken away 
by a stranger, the churchwarden may have action against the 
wrongdoer. Ayliffe. 
WRO'NGER, s. He that injures; he that does wrong. 
That cuckold lives in bliss, 
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger. 
Shakspeare. 
Many times a prince is driven to spend far more of his trea¬ 
sure in punishing by war the wrongers of his people, than 
the loss of his people did amount unto. Ralegh. 
WRO'NGFUL, adj. Injurious; unjust. 
I am so far from granting thy request. 
That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit. Shakspeare. 
He that have wronged so in daily trade, that he knows not 
in what measure he hath done it, must redeem his fault by 
alms, according to the value of his wrongful dealing. Bp. 
Taylor. 
WRO'NGFULLY, adv. Unjustly.—Dorus, said Pamela, 
you blame your fortune very wrongfully, since the fault is 
not in fortune, but in you, that cannot frame yourself to 
your fortune; and as wrongfully do require Mopsa to so 
great a disparagement as to her father’s servant. Sidney. 
This poor fellow. 
He had thought to murder wrongfully. Shakspeare. 
WRO'NGHEAD, or Wrongheaded, adj. Having a 
perverse understanding. 
Much do I suffer, much to keep in peace 
This jealous, waspish, wronghead, rhyming race. Pope. 
WRO'NGLESSLY, adv. Without injury to any.— 
Dearly esteemed of her for his exceeding good parts, being 
honourably courteous, and wronglessly valiant, consider¬ 
ately pleasant in conversation, and an excellent courtier, 
without unfaithfulness. Sidney. 
WRO'NGLY, adv. Unjustly ; amiss. 
What thou would’st highly 
That would’st thou holily; would’st not play false, 
And yet would’st wrongly win. Shakspeare. 
WRO'NGNESS, s. Wrong disposition.—The best have 
great wrongnesses within themselves, which they complain 
of, and endeavour to amend. Butler. 
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