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WRONKI, a town of Prussian Poland, on the Wartha, 
with 1600 inhabitants; 32 miles north-west of Posen. 
WROOT, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 11 miles 
north-west of Gainsborough. 
WROTE, pret. and part, of write. Dr. Johnson. — 
Written is now generally used for the participle.—No man 
has the estate of his soul drawn upon his face, nor the decree 
of his election wrote upon his forehead. He who would 
know a man thoroughly, must follow him into the closet of 
his heart; the inspection of which is only the prerogative of 
omniscience. South. —It is to his fables, though wrote in 
his old age, that Dryden will owe his immortality. Dr. 
Wart on. 
WROTH, adj. [from ppaeS, Saxon. See Wrath.] 
Angry. 
The Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? Gen .— 
Wroth to see his kingdom fail. Milton. 
WROTHAM, a parish of England, in Kent; 24 miles 
from London. 
WROTTESLEY, a hamlet of England, in Staffordshire, 
near Wolverhampton. 
WROUGHT, [ppohc, Saxon. The pret. and part. pass, 
as it seems, of work: as the Dutch wercken, makes gerocht. 
Dr. Johnson. —Our ancestors, by substituting h for k or c, 
wrote pophc; and by transposition ppohc; which we now 
write wrought, and retain both as past tense and past parti¬ 
ciple of pypcan, to work. H, Tookel] —Effected; per¬ 
formed.—The Jews wanted not power and ability to have 
convinced the world of the falsehood of these miracles, had 
they never been wrought. Stephens. —Influenced; pre¬ 
vailed on. 
Had I thought the sight of my poor image 
Would thus have wrought you, for the stone is mine, 
I’d not have showed it. ' Shakspeare. 
Produced; caused. 
All his good prov’d ill in me. 
And wrought but malice. Milton. 
They wrought by their faithfulness the public safety. 
Dryden. —Worked; laboured.—They that wrought in sil¬ 
ver, and whose works are unsearchable, are gone down to 
the grave. Bar. —Moses and Eleazer took the gold, even all 
wrought jewels. Num.- —Gained ; attained. 
We ventured on such dang’rous seas, 
That if we wrought out life, ’twas ten to one. Shakspeare. 
Operated. 
Such another field 
They dreaded worse than hell: so much the fear 
Of thunder, and the sword of Michael, 
Wrought still within them. Milton. 
Used in labour.—Take an heifer which hath not been 
wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. 
Deut. 
Worked ; driven.—As infection from body to body is re¬ 
ceived many time by the body passive, yet is it by the good 
disposition thereof repulsed and wrought out, before it be 
formed in a disease. Bacon. —’Actuated. 
Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought. 
Too soon discover’d his ambitious thought ; 
Believ’d me his, before I spoke him fair. 
And pitch’d his head into the ready snare. Dryden. 
Manufactured.—It had been no less a breach of peace to 
have wrought any mine of his, than it is now a breach of 
peace, to take a town of his in Guiana, and bum it. Ralegh. 
—Formed.—He that hath wrought us for the same thing, is 
God. Cor. —Excited by degrees, produced by degrees. 
The spirit is wrought, 
To dare things high, set up an end my thought. Chapman. 
Guided; managed.—A ship by skilful steersman wrought. 
Milton. Agitated; disturbed. 
We stay upon your leisure- 
—Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought 
With things forgot. Shakspeare. 
WROUGHTON, a parish of England, in Buckingham¬ 
shire; 2 miles from Fenny Stratford.—2. A parish in Wilt¬ 
shire ; 3 miles south-west of Swindon. Population 1202. 
WROXALL, a parish of England, in Warwickshire; 6 
miles north-west of Warwick. 
WROXETER, a town and parish of England, in the 
county of Salop, situated on the river Severn; 5 miles south¬ 
east of Shrewsbury. It was known to the Romans. Traces 
of a wall, and also of a bridge over the river, are yet dis¬ 
cernible when the water is low. 
WROXHAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 2J miles 
south-east of Coltishall. 
WROXTON, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire. 
WRUNG. The pret. and part, passive of wring. —He 
first cald to me: then my hand he wrung. Chapman. —No 
mortal was ever so much at ease, but his shoe wrung him 
somewhere. L'Estrange. 
WRY, adj. Crooked; deviating from the right direc¬ 
tion. 
Sometimes to her news of myself to tell 
I go about, but then is all my best 
Wry words, and stamm’ring, or else doltish dumb; 
Say then, can this but of enchantment come ? Sidney. 
Distorted.—It is but a kick with thy heels, and a wry 
mouth, and Sir Roger will be with thee. Arbuthnot.— 
Wrung; perverted; wrested.—He mangles and puts a wry 
sense upon protestant writers. Atterbury. 
To WRY, v. n. To be contorted and writhed; to devi¬ 
ate from the right direction.—These wry too much on the 
right hand, ascribing to the holy scripture such kind of per¬ 
fection as it cannot have. Sandys. 
To WRY, v. a. To make to deviate; to distort.—They 
have wrested and wry'd his doctrine. Robinson.- —To what 
pass are our minds brought, that from the right line of virtue 
are wryed to these crooked shifts ? Sidney. 
WRYNECK, s. [torquilla , Lat.] A bird. 
WRYNEHILL, a township of England, in Cheshire. 
WRY'NESS, s. State of being wry; deviation from the 
right way.—Exploring the rectitude or wryness of their be¬ 
haviours. W. Montague. 
WSETIN, a town of Moravia; 23 miles north-east of 
Hradisch. 
WUDWAN, a fortified town of Hindostan, province of 
Gujerat. It is of considerable extent and population, and 
carries on an extensive trade with the gulf of Cambay. Lat. 
22. 42. N. long. 71. 47. E. 
WULDAU, a small town in the interior of Bohemia; 14 
miles south-west of Crumau. 
WULFENIA [so named by Jacquin, from the Rev. 
Francis Xavier Wulfen , author of Plantse Rariores Carin- 
thiacse, in Jacquin’s Miscellanea], in Botany, a genus of the 
class diandria, order monogynia.—Generic Character. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianth one-leafed, five-parted; leaflets linear, subu¬ 
late, equal, erect, permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, rin- 
gent; tube subglobular-gibbous at the base: border two¬ 
lipped; upper lip shorter, entire, somewhat arched, acute; 
lower longer, bent down, trifid; bearded at the aperture. 
Stamina : filaments two, filiform, converging, arch-wise, con¬ 
cealed under the upper lip, shorter than the corolla. Anthers 
roundish. Pistil: germ oblong, compressed. Style filiform, 
very long. Stigma: capitate, umbilicate. Pericarp: cap¬ 
sule oval, obtuse, compressed at the top, grooved on each 
side, two-celled, four-valved. Seeds numerous, round.— 
Essential Character. Corolla: tubular, ringent, with the 
upper lip short, entire, the lower three-parted, with the aper¬ 
ture bearded. Calyx five-parted. Capsule: two-celled, 
four-valved. 
Wulfenia Carinthiaca.—-This is a stemless plant, nearly al¬ 
lied to the Psederotas. Root perennial. Leaves radical, obo- 
vate, obtuse, grossly crenate, smooth. Scape round, some¬ 
what hairy, much higher than the leaves. Flowers peduncled, 
supported by a lanceolate bracte, all directed the same way, 
blue. 
