Also 5–6 wrye. [f. WRY v.2 or a.]
† 1. On or upon wry, = AWRY adv. Sc. Obs.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, IV. 705. Thair bemys strekit air, Owthir all evin, or on wry.
1423. James I., Kingis Q., lxxiii. To the colde stone my hede on wrye I laid.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting, 175 (Maitland Fol. MS.). With hingit luik ay wallowand vpone wry.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 482. Scho … turnis hir face and luikis vpoune wry.
2. A twisting or tortuous movement.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, VII. xxii. 674. The bitch being much lesse than the dogge … may haue some aduantage…, and so in turnes, slips, and wries, may get much ground.
1654. Vilvain, Epit. Ess., V. xliii. The Sea flows and ebbs with crooked wry.
3. Distortion caused by refraction. rare–1.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., vii. You make full sure to prog him [sc. a loach] well, in spite of the wry of the water.
