ppl. a. [f. WRY v.2 + -ED1.]
1. Turned aside; deflected, diverted.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. CXXV. iv. A vaine deceiver, Whose wryed footing not aright directed Wandreth in error.
2. That has undergone contortion or twisting; writhed, contorted.
1576. A. Hall, Acc. Quarrel, etc. (1816), I. 100. His colour … crymson, his eyes fyry, his visage wryed unnaturally.
1598–9. B. Jonson, Case is Altered, II. iv. Vsing their wryed countenances in stead of a vice, to turn [etc.].
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 342. The Quoiter … who stands wryed in a Gesture ready to deliver.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, XXIII. 656. A silver cup That crookt and wryed was about the brim.
1887. Morris, Odyss., IX. 372. His thick neck [was] wryed and twisted.
1891. Kipling, Life’s Handicap, 106. His mouth was wried with agony.
transf. 1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., Prol. 178. Vsing his wryed lookes (In nature of a vice) to wrest and turne The good aspect of those that shall sit neere him.
