List of Old English Words in the OED/WR

Old English	sp	English
Wrack	n	A fusion of OE wraec punishment, revenge & Dutch wrak: wreck. 2. retribution, punishment; vengeance, revenge; later active enmity, persecution. 3. damage, disaster, danger, injury to a person by reason of force, outrage or violence. 4. a disastrous change in condition or state of affairs; wreck, ruin. 5. the ruin, downfall, or overthrow of a person or persons. 6. an instance of causing or suffering wrack, ruin, destruction etc. 7. a means or cause of subversion, overthrow, or downfall. 8. a thing or person in an impaired, wrecked or shattered condition. 9. that which remains after the operation of any destructive action or agency. 10. a trace or vestige left by some subversive action.
Wrack	n	A parallel formation to OE: wraec. 2. a wrecked ship or other vessel; a shipwreck. 2. remnants of goods from a wrecked vessel, esp. as driven or cast ashore. 3. marine vegetation, seaweed or the like, cast ashore by the waves or growing on the tidal seashore. 4. weeds, rubbish etc., floating or washed down or ashore by a river, stream, pond or the like. 5. field weeds, roots of couch grass or the like; esp. as loosened from the soil to be collected for burning.
Wrack	vb	To suffer or undergo shipwreck. 2. to wreck, ruin or cast ashore by shipwreck. 3. to cause to ruin, downfall or subversion of (a person); to ruin, overthrow. 4. to render useless by breaking. 5. to injure, spoil severely, destroy. 55. to undergo ruin or subversion.
Wrack	phr	"Do or Nim Wrack Upon" - bring suffering, ruin or downfall to.
Wrack	phr	"He Have No Wealth by Wrack of Sea" -
Wrack	phr	"World's Wrack" - earthly dross; worldly possessions.
Wracked	adj	That has undergone or suffered wrack; esp. shipwreck, ruined, destroyed.
Wrackful	adj	Characterized by resentment or anger, vengeful, angry. 2. causing shipwreck; wreckful. 3. full of misery, wrecked. 4. causing destruction or devastation, effecting damage or harm. 5. subject or attended by injury and harm.
Wracksome	adj	Destructive.
Wrackwort	n	Seaweed.
Wrake	n	OE. wracu. revenge, vengeance, persecute.
Wrake	n	Shipwreck, wreck, wreckage. 2. a wrake edifice.
Wrake	vb	To execute vengeance upon. 2. to become angry. 3. to wax violent or furious, rage. 4. to vent one's wroth. 5. to take wroth upon someone.
Wrake	phr	"To Do or Nim Wrake Upon" - to take vengeance upon.
Wrakedom	n	Revenge.
Wrangnail	n	OE. warnel- a corn on the foot or head.
Wrath	n	Extreme anger.
Wrath	phr	"Flee from the Wrath to Come" - try to escape from the threat of anger, punishment, revenge or persecution foreseen as threatening one.
Wrath	phr	"In Wrath" - in anger.
Wrath	phr	"Wrath of God" - terrible, dreadfully.
Wrath-bearing	adj	That produce or gives rise to wrath and anger.
Wrath-bewildered	adj	Confused or perplexed by wrath, as 'wrath-bewildered brain'
Wrath-fire	n	Extreme or burning anger, as 'stir up one's wrath-fire.'
Wrathful	adj	Extremely angry. 2. full of wrath; angry, incensed, furious, raging; indignant.
Wrathfully	adv	In a wrathful manner, angrily, wrathly
Wrathfulness	n	State, condition, quality of being wrathful, wrath, ire.
Wrath-hood	n	Wrath, deep anger; wrathhood.
Wrathily	adv	In a wrathy or angry manner; done with ire or angrily.
Wrathless	adj	Free from, devoid of wrath.
Wrathness	n	Anger, ire, wrath.
Wrath-storm	n	Storm of rage; rage.
Wrathy	adj	Extremely angry.
Wraxle	vb	To wrestle, contend, strive.
Wraxling	n	Act of wrestling, contending, striving.
Wray	vb	To accuse, denounce, inform on a person. 2. to expose (one) by revealing or divulging information, etc., to one's harm. 3. prejudice, or discredit. 4. to charge with a crime, offence, fault. 5. to declare, assert, (something about another by way of accusation or denunciation. 6. to bring forth a charge. 7. to reveal or disclose (someone's secrets) perfidiously or prejudicially; to divulge with breach of trust, betray. 8. reveal, disclose, divulge some fact, to declare, communicate, make known. 9. to reveal or make known in the prescence of. 10. to betray a person to an enemy by disloyalty. 11. to expose (a person) by revealing some hidden fact or private matter. 12. to reveal or disclose, to expose to view, to exhibit.
Wraying	n	The action of wray; accusing; accusation, denouncing, etc.
Wrayer	n	A betrayer, accuser, one who denounces, discloses.
Wrayful	n	Concerning or involving an accusation.
Wrayward	adj	Perverse, forward.
Wreak	vb	To inflict or exact as vengeance of ones anger. 2. to satiate; give free expression to, as a feeling or passion. give play or satisfaction to ones anger. 5. cause damage upon.
Wreak	n	Vengeance, retribution, punishment.
Wreaker	n	An avenger; one who seeks retribution, vengeance.
Wreakful	adj	Of persons; given or addicted to revenge. 2. marked or characterized by desire for revenge. 3. of the nature of vengance or retribution.
Wreakless	adj	Unpunished, free from punishment. unavenged, lacking retribution.
Wreath(e)	n	A bank of sand. 2. a snowdrift. 3. column of smoke, steam. 4. whirl, whorl, spiral structure. 5. fold, crease, wrinkle. 6. tail of a boar. 7. roll of flower, etc., a wreath 8. something formed by twisting, yarn. 9. trailing cluster of vine, etc. 10. a part of a continuous handrail going around a curved plan.
Wreathe	vb	(Of smoke) move in shape of a wreathe. 2. form flowers, silk into a wreathe. 3. make a garland.
Wreathe	phr	"Wreathed In" - surrounded by coils or wavy lines of mist, smoke, ivy, etc.
Wreathed	adj	Shaped in the form of a wreathe. 2. coiled, twisted, intertwined.
Wreathed stairs	n	A geometrical stairs or stairs with a continuous strings aand handrail round a semi-circular or semi-elliptical well.
Wreathen	vb	Formed or arranged by or as by twining or interweaving, entwined, intertwined.
Wreathen	adj	Wreathed, contorted, twisted. 2. entwined, intertwined.
Wreather	n	One who, or that which wreathes, twists, or twines.
Wreathing	n	The action of twisting or contorting, or of entwining or intertwining. 2. the fact of wreathing, a instance of this; something twisted or wreathed.
Wreathingly	adv	In a manner or way twisting, twining, intertwining,
Wreathless	adj	Having no wreath; devoid or destitute or wreath or wreaths.
Wreath-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a wreath in some aspect.
Wreath-shell	n	A spiral structure.
Wreathwort	n	Orchis mascula or the early purple orchis.
Wreathy	adj	Of the form of a wreath, coil, or twisted band; marked or characterized by convolution, curling, twirling, twisting or twining. 2. decked with a wreath. 4. of the nature of, forming, or constituting a wreath or garland.
Wrecche	n	Retribution, punishment, vengeance. 2. affliction, calamity, deep distress, misery, wretchedness.
Wrecche	vb	To arouse, rouse, to bring to life, awake. 2. undertake to awake or arouse. 3. to rescue or deliver. 3. to avenge (oneself). 4. to give effect to.
Wrecche	phr	"To Go to Wrecche" - to suffer misery, affliction, calamity.
Wreccher	n	An avenger, revenger, retributory.
Wrecchful	adj	Vengeful, revengeful.
Wreck	n	Wreck goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base 'wreg'. Its Germanic descendant 'wrek' forms the basis of a verb 'wrekan' - drive. The native English descendant of this is the OE 'wreak' which originally meant 'drive.' and developed its modern meaning via 'give vent to anger or other violent emotions.' Wreck itself was acquired via old Norse 'wrek and Anglo-Norman wrec, and etymologically it denotes a ship that has been driven on to the shore. A variant of same base, wrek lies behind English wretch.
Wreck	vb	To causes wreck, destruction of, frustration of any sort. 2. to tear down and remove old buildings. 3. to forcefully break.
Wrecker	n	One who causes wreck, destruction of, frustration of any sort. 2. one employed in tearing down and removing old buildings. 3. a person, train, car or machine that clears away wrecks. 4. one employed to recover disabled vessels or wrecked cargoes for the owners; one who salvages. 5. one who lures ships to destruction by false lights on the shore in order to plunder the wreck.
Wreck-free	adj	Free of wrecks.
Wreckful	adj	Causing wreck, involving ruin.
Wren	n	The bird genus 'Troglodiles' or 'Svyliidae' 2. slang. a woman, a young woman.
Wrench	n	A crooked, cunning or wily action or device. 2. a trick, wile, or artifice. 3. trickery, deceit, guile, fraud. 4. a violent twist or oblique pull or act or tearing off. 5. an adjustable tool like a spanner for the gripping and turning of nuts. 6. melody, song, and modulation.
Wrench	vb	To twist or pull violently round or sideways. 2. pull off with a wrench. 3. distort facts to support a theory.
Wrench	vb	To perform or undergo a quick or favorable turning or twisting motion.
Wrench	phr	"Wrench off" - take off, remove, with a powerful, twisting movement.
Wrench	phr	"Wrench and Wile" - trickery, strategy and deception.
Wrencher	n	One who twists, turn, curl, intertwine.
Wrenchful	adj	Artful, crafty, deceitful. 2. that wrenches or twists. 3. the nature of twisting or wrenching. 4. causing great pain; agonizingly painful..
Wrenching	n	Action of the verb in various senses. 2. griping pain in the bowels.
Wrenching	adj	Causing great physical or mental suffering.
Wrenching-iron	n	A gripping tool, shaped like a wrench.
Wrenchingly	adv	In a wrenching manner.
Wrench-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a wrench (gripping tool).
Wrench-milk	n	Curd.
Wrenchy	adj	Painful, agonizing.
Wrene	adj	Libidinous, lascivious.
Wrength	n	From Middle English wrength, which may derive from an unattested Old English word *wrengþu (“unevenness, wrongness, inequity”) (from wrang (“wrong”)) or have been formed in Middle English from wrong on analogy with strong→strength and long→length (see -th); - rare and now nonstandard meaning: the state or condition of being wrong. 2. crookedness, distortion. cf 'brength'
Wrest	n	A key for tuning a piano.
Wrest	vb	Force or wrench away from a person's grasp. 2. obtain by effort or difficulty. 3. distort in accordance with one's views or interest.
Wrest	adj	That has undergone wresting or wringing, twisted. 2. deflected or turned from the true meaning or natural application, strained, perverted. 3. drawn out, taken or acquired, by force.
Wrest	phr	"Wrest from" - obtain, win from in a hard struggle.
Wrester	n	One who wrests or twists. 2. an instrument for picking locks. 3. one who wrests or deflects the meaning or application of words. 3. one who perverts, or distracts. 4. griping or ringing pain.
Wrestle	n	A contest in which two opponents grapple and try to throw each other to the ground esp. as an athletic event under a code of rules. 2. a hard struggle. 3. do one's utmost to deal with a difficulty, task etc.
Wrestle	vb	Take part in a wrestle. 2. fight in a wrestle to throw an opponent to the ground.
Wrestle	phr	"Wrestle Down" - force to the ground by wrestling.
Wrestle	phr	"Wrestle with" - fight inwardly, morally with, struggle with.
Wrestle	phr	"Wrestle with a Pig" - engage in a struggle with an opponent with benefits from the struggle without even winning it.
Wrestler	n	An athlete who takes part in wrestling events.
Wrestling-frog	n	South American 'wrestling' frog 'Rana luctator'
Wrestling	n	Organized wrestling events. 2, the act of wrestling. 3. an instance of this. 4. struggling with a difficulty or problem.
Wretch	n	Wretchedness, misery. 2. a cause or source of distress.
Wretch	n	One driven out or away from his native country, a banished person, an exile; a convict, a transported felon.
Wretch	vb	To render miserable. 2. to become niggardly or parsimonious.
Wretchdom	n	Misery, woe, distress, baseness.
Wretched	adj	Unhappy or miserable. 2. of bad quality or no merit, contemptible. 3. unsatisfactory or displeasing. 4.
Wretched	phr	"Feel Wretched" - be unwell. 2. be much embarrassed.
Wretchedful	adj	Full of misery, woe; miserable, wretched; unhappy, with or not having bliss.
Wretchedhood	n	State or condition of being a wretched person. 2. wretchedness, misery.
Wretchedly	adv	In a wretched manner, woeful, miserably.
Wretchless	adj	(Erroneously from reckless) of persons: heedless, careless, impudent. 2. marked or characterized by heedlessness or carelessness.
Wretchlessness	n	Condition or quality of being reckless or heedless etc. **** 2. in wretched manner or distress state; miserably.
Wretchly	adv	In a wretched or distressing manner.
Wretchness	n	The state or condition of being a wretch.
Wretchock	n	A person who is somewhat or wretched.
Wrethe	n	Violent anger. 2. a fit or display of wrath of the Deity. 3. injury, hurt, harm.
Wrethe	vb	Of persons (or things) to make angry, vex, irritate. 2. to be angry with a person. 3. to be angry.
Wrethe	vb	To prop up, hold up, support, sustain, (also fig.) 2. to support (oneself) by leaning upon another. 3. to rely or depend on another person.
Wrethful	adj	Of persons- angry, irate, marked or characterized by wroth.
Wrethfulness	n	Full of anger and wrath.
Wrething	n	The act of supporting or propping up.
Wride	n	A shoot, stalk or stem. 2. a group or bush of stalks, growing from one root.
Wride	vb	To put forth shoots; spread out.
Wried	adj	Turned aside, deflected, diverted. 2. that which has undergone contorting, twisting. 3. writhed, contorted, twisted.
Wriels	n	A covering, veil.
Wrien	n	Hidden, covered. 2. accoutered, equipped.
Wrier	n	One who twists, contorts, a contortionist.
Wright	n	Artificier or handicraftsman; esp. a construction worker. 2. one who works with wood; a carpenter, a joiner. 3. see: cartwright. shipwright, wainwright wheelwright.
Wright	vb	To build, construct. 2. to repair (a ship); to renovate, mend. 3. to pursue the occupation of a wright.
Wright	vb	Desert what has deserved or had a right to; hence blame, find fault with.
Wrightcraft	n	The craft of one who builds or creates something
Wrightful	adj	Having deserved something; have a right to.
Wright-house	n	The place of business of a wright or wrights.
Wrighting	n	Wrightry, art or craft of the wright. 2. the occupation, business or craft of a wright or a carpenter.
Wrightless-like	adj	Undeserving, without right to.
Wrightless-likely	adv	Undeservingly, unrightfully.
Wrightsmith	n	The art or craft of the wright.
Wrightwork	n	Work done, wrought or performed by a wright.
Wrily	adv	Tending or inclined to be mocking in humour.
Wrine	vb	To squeal like a pig.
Wring	n	The act of wringing; a squeeze. 2. a wine-press or cider-press. 2. a cheese-press
Wring	vb	To squeeze tightly. 2. squeeze and twist to wring out moisture. 3. sueeze forcibly, break by twisting. 4. extract by squeezing. 5. obtain by pressure or importunity. extort.
Wring	phr	"Know Where the Shoe Wrings" - where the shoe pinch the foot by tightness. 2. know the rigors of parsimony.
Wring	phr	"Wring in" - to insert, insinuate or bring in with or as with a twisting movement.
Wring	phr	"Wring One's Hands" - squeeze and twist one's hands together as a sign of anxiety, emotion, distress or despair. 2. clasp them as with emotion
Wring	phr	"Wring Out (or from)" - get something from somebody; extract something by applying moral or physical pressure. 2. to force out (moisture) by twisting. 3. force water from clothing, by twisting it or passing it through rollers.
Wring	phr	"Wring Somebody's Hand" - clasp the hand of another with emotion.
Wring	phr	"Wring Somebody's Neck" - strangle, press down, throttle, somebody. 2. kill a chicken by wringing its neck.
Wring-bolt	n	A ring-bolt.
Wringer	n	An exactor, extortionist, an oppressor. 2. one who wrings clothes or the like after washing. 3. one who occupation consists in wringing. 4. a wringing-machine. 5. a device for wringing hot fomentations before application.
Wringer	phr	"Put through the Wringer" - to put or subject a person to severe and prolonged questioning.
Wringhouse	n	The house or shed where a cider or cheese-press is kept.
Wringing	n	A griping or wringing pian in the intestines. 2. remorse. 3. perversion.
Wringing	adj	Twisting, squeezing, obtaining by pressure; exacting, strangling.
Wringingly	adv	In a wrung or twisted manner; with a twist.
Wrinkle	n	A slight crease or depression in the skin such as produced by age. 2. a similar mark in another flexible surface. 3. a detail, esp. a useful tip or technical innovation. 4.
Wrinkle	vb	Make wrinkles in. 2. form wrinkles, mark with wrinkles.
Wrinkled	adj	Marked with wrinkles.
Wrinkle-free	adj	Free of wrinkles; not having wrinkles or wrinkle-less.
Wrinkleless	adj	Free of wrinkles.
Wrinklelessly	adv	In a smooth or without wrinkled manner.
Wrist	n	The part connectin the hand with the forearm. 2. the corresponding part in an animal. 3. the part of a garment covering the wrist.
Wristband	n	A band forming or concealing the end of a shirtsleeve; a cuff.
Wrist-bone	n	The carpal bone.
Wrist-drop	n	In pathology, paralysis of the muscles controlling movement of the hand, a symptom of lead poisoning.
Wrist-iron	n	A handcuff, restraint; shackle. 2. a small strap for wearing on the wrist.
Wristily	adv	In a wrist manner, performed or done with the wrists.
Wristlet	n	A bracelet, a handcuff, wrist-iron.
Wristlock	n	A wrestling hold involving applying extreme pressure to an opponents wrist.
Wrist-pin	n	A stud projecting from a crank, as an attachment for a connecting a rod.
Wristwatch	n	A small watch worn on a strap round the wrist.
Wristwork	n	Th act or practice of working the hand without moving the wrist. 2. sleight of hand.
Wristy	adj	Performed by the use of the wrists; marked by clever wrist work, as a batsman at cricket, especially one from the Sub-continent.
Writ	n	A form of written command in the name of a court, state, sovereign, etc to act or abstain from acting in some way. 2. a crown document summoning a peer to Parliament or ordering the election of a member or members of Parliament.
Writ	phr	"From the Holy Writ" - the Scriptures; the Holy Bible.
Writ	phr	"One Writ Runs" - one that has the authority (as specified).
Writ	phr	"Writ of Right" - formerly in England a writ in action for the purpose of establishing a title to real estate. 2. a similar common law writ.
Writ	phr	"Writ Small" - write in a small or reduced form or text. 2. make less small or conspicuous.
Write	vb	Write communicate or express by writing. 2. record data on a computer. 3. communicate (with) in writing. 4. communicate by letter. 5. mark or trace on a surface. 5. create code, write a computer program. 6. produce a literary work. 6. write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word). 7. write music. 8. have (one's written work) issued for publication.
Write	phr	"Nothing to Write Home Of" - unimpressive; of little interest or value.
Write	phr	Write Away" - send an order for something offered as a free gift, for sale.
Write	phr	"Write Against" - produce articles etc against of somebody or something.
Write	phr	"Write Back" - write and send a reply to.
Write	phr	"Write Down" - record on paper (often as a memory aid). 2. record or take note of in writing. 3.to put or set down in writing; to commit to, ascribe or record in written form; to note or jot down. 4. to overcome or surpass, disparage. 5. to disparage in writing or depreciate, condemn or decry in writing. 6. to diminish in destroy one's own literary reputation by inferior writing. 7. to write (a literary work) in a style adapted to the level of readers, or supposedly to their inferior intelligence or taste.
Write	phr	"Write Home" - send a letter to one's family (perhaps after some period of estrangement).
Write	phr	"Write In/Into" - include, insert something, as a fact or statement, in a written text. 2. add to the ballot paper the name of a candidate not printed there or the like, as a candidate of one's choice. 3. make a part of, embody in or build into to, a legal document. 4. send a question, query, suggestion in writing to an organization, esp by a radio station.
Set	phr	"Write in Stone" - to make something permanent and incapable of being changed, typically a plan or idea. 2. carved in stone; engraved in stone, written in stone. 3. permanently fixed or firmly established; incapable of being changed. 4. (fig). permanent or not subject to change.
Write	phr	"Write In the Dust" (also, in the sand, earth, wind etc.) - written in the earth implied contrast with the name graven on the rock for ever (Job 19:24) are those written on the dust or sand. The Eastern habit of writing on the ground (of which John 8:6 supplies one memorable instance, and which was the common practice in Jewish schools) gave a vividness to the similitude which we have almost lost.
Write	phr	"Write Off" - regard something as a failure, beyond recovery. 2. recognize that something is a loss (debt) and cannot be recovered. 3. damage something so badly that it has no value. 4. recognize that something is so badly damaged that it no longer economic to pay for its repair.
Write	phr	"Write Of (As)" - regard somebody or something as unimportant, not worth listening to because of its thought-to-be foolishness and wild assertions.
Write	phr	"Write On" - produce books etc on a particular subject.
Write	phr	"Write Oneself Out" - reach the point where one is no longer original, creative.
Write	phr	"Write Only" - In computer humor, a write-only language is a pejorative term for a programming language alleged to have syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is too difficult to understand by other programmers and cannot be safely edited.[1] Likewise, write-only code is source code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be reliably modified or even comprehended by anyone with the possible exception of the author. See "Read-only"
Write	phr	"Write Out" - write in full, finished, or complete form. 2. exhaust oneself by writing.
Write	phr	"Write Out of" - remove a character from a dramatic series on radio on TV or radio.
Write	phr	"Write Up" -rewrite something in a fuller, better organized way. 2. give a full written account or description of something. 3. write a review of a pay etc., usually for a newspaper or magazine.
Write	phr	"Written in Stone" - to make something permanent and incapable of being changed, typically a plan or idea. 2. carved in stone; engraved in stone, written in stone. 3. permanently fixed or firmly established; incapable of being changed. 4. (fig). permanent or not subject to change.
Write	phr	"Written In the Dust" (also, in the sand, earth, wind etc.) - written in the earth implied contrast with the name graven on the rock for ever (Job 19:24) are those written on the dust or sand. The Eastern habit of writing on the ground (of which John 8:6 supplies one memorable instance, and which was the common practice in Jewish schools) gave a vividness to the similitude which we have almost lost.
Write-down	n	Something that is recorded, set down in writing; to put or set down. 2. committal , ascription or record in written form; note or something jotted down. 3. a reduction in the estimated book value of an asset. 4. the disparagement in writing or depreciation, condemnation or decrying in writing. 4. the diminishing or destroying of one's own literary reputation by inferior writing. 5. the writing (a literary work) in a style adapted to the level of readers, or supposedly to their inferior intelligence, dumbing down or taste.
Write-in	vb	The insertion of (a fact, statement etc.) in writing. 2. the sending (suggesting etc) in written form to an organization. 2. the insertion of (the name of an unlisted person) on a ballot paper or the like, as a candidate of one's choice.
Writeling	n	OE. writan - the chirp, trill or trilling, warbling of the nightingale.
Write-off	n	The recording of the cancelling of a bad debt. 2. fig. the dismissing from consideration as insignificant or irrelevant. 3. the damaging beyond repair, or wrecking a motor vehicle etc.
Write-off	n	A motor vehicle or the like, damaged beyond repair. 2. a bad debt written off.
Write-out	n	A fair or perfect transcription or written copy of something. 2. a rough draft, copy, etc. 3. to copy out, transcribe in full or detail.
Write-over	n	Write over the top of existing text.
Writer	n	A person who writes or hs written. 2. a person who writes an book; an author.
Writerling	n	A petty writer. 2. a poor or indifferent writer.
Writerly	adv	Appropriate to, characteristic or worthy of an professional writer or literary man. 2. consciously literary.
Writership	n	The office or position of a writer in a company. 2. the office or employment of a clerk. 2. conspicuously literary.
Write-up	n	A written account or description commending or praising a person or thing. 2. now loosely, any journalistic account or review whether favourable or not.
Writhe	n	An act of writhing.
Writhe	vb	Twist or roll oneself about in or as if in acute pain. 2. suffer severe discomfort, squirm, or embarrassment (shame, etc). 3. twist one's body about in severe pain. 4. to distort. 5. to turn to and fro. 6. to be tormented in the mind.
Writhe	vb	To sprout or flower.
Writhed	adj	Twisted, contorted, turned, jerky, unnerved.
Writhedly	adv	In a twisted, contorted, turned, jerky, unnerved.
Writhen	adj	Wrested, perverted, deflected. 2. twisted, contorted, turned. 3. made or shaped by intertwining or plaiting.
Writhening	n	Wrythening
Writhing	n	Bended in a twisting struggle.
Writhingly	adv	In a twisting struggle.
Writhled	adj	Of persons; the skin,etc: wrinkled, shriveled, withered. 2. tough, shaggy.
Writhy	adj	Moving sinuously.
Writing	n	A group or sequence of letter as symbols. 2. a piece of literary work done; a book, article.
Writing	phr	"In Writing:" - written.
Writing	phr	"See the Writing on the Wall" - there are unmistakable signs that warn of failure, disaster, defeat, (allusion to biblical Daniel).
Writing-book	n	A copybook for practizing writing.
Writing-booth	n	A desk with a surround available in libraries, and the like for writing.
Writing-dust	n	Writing sand: a kind of sand used to dry ink.
Writing-frame	n	A frame used for the blind in witing.
Writings	n	"The Writings" - the Hagiographa.
Writ-rune	n	A written character; hence in the plural, a document or letter.
Writsax	n	A pen. As well as writing on parchment, the Anglo-Saxons also used tablets filled with wax for notes and for planning the layout of large books. They wrote on the tables with a metal or bone stylus, that had a pointed end and rubbed out the words with flat end.
Written	adj	In writing.
Written law	n	Statue law, as distinguished from law based on the decision of judges.
Wrixle	vb	to alter, change, contract, exchange.
Wrixling	n	The action of changing, or the fact of being changed.
Wrong	n	What is morally wrong; a wrong action. 2. injustice, an unjust treatment.
Wrong	vb	Treat unjustly; do wrong. 2. mistaken attribute bad motives; discredit.
Wrong	adj	Mistaken, not true, in error, as a wrong answer. 2. unsuitable, unjust, less or least desirable. 3. contrary to law or morality. 4. amiss, out of order; in or into a bad or abnormal condition. 5. whatever deviates from rectitude.
Wrong	adv	In a wrong manner or direction. 2. with an incorrect result.
Wrong	n	"The Wrong" - that which is wrong; absence or right or unfairness; unjust or wrongful action. 2. the end, or limit less adopted, suitable or proper for a required purpose.
Wrong	phr	"Back the Wrong Horse" - hae faith in, give support or put money into a project which proves to be a failure.
Wrong	phr	"Bark Up the Wrong Tree" - to reach an incorrect conclusion.
Wrong	phr	"Be On the Wrong Wavelength" - be incorrect in ones thinking.
Wrong	phr	"Born on the Wrong Side of the Bed" - illegimate.
Wrong	phr	"Don't Get Me Wrong" - do not misunderstand me. 2. do not take offense at what I say.
Wrong	phr	"Do Somebody Wrong" - do someone damage or harm, injury someone; be unfaithful or disloyal; act unjustly or unfairly toward someone.
Wrong	phr	"Do Wrong" - commit sin, transgress; offend. 2. malign or mistreat a person.
Wrong	phr	"Do Wrong to" - malign or mistreat a person.
Wrong	phr	"Get in Wrong with" - incur the dislike or disapproval of (a person).
Wrong	phr	"Get Off on the Wrong Foot (with somebody)"- begin very badly. 2. to make an unfavorable initial impression on a person.
Wrong	phr	"Get On the Wrong Side of" - cause someone to dislike one.
Wrong	phr	"Get Out of Bed on the Wrong Side" - be disagreeable, grumpy.
Wrong	phr	"Get Something Wrong" - misunderstand or make a mistake.
Wrong	phr	"Get/Hold the Wrong End of the Stick" - to be completely wrong about something.
Wrong	phr	"Get the Wrong Sow by his Ear" - to reach a incorrect conclusion.
Wrong	phr	"Get Wrong" - misunderstand a person's statement. 2. obtain an incorrect answer.
Wrong	phr	"Go Down the Wrong Way" - of food that enter the windpipe instead of the gullet.
Wrong	phr	"Go Wrong" - make a mistake or cease to function, work properly or become immoral or dishonest. 2. depart from virtuous or suitable behavior. 3. take the wrong path in life.
Wrong	phr	"Have Wrong" - to suffer injustice.
Wrong	phr	"In the Wrong" - culpable, guilty, purpose. 2. responsible, for a quarrel mistake, or offence.
Wrong	phr	"Not Put a Foot Wrong" - never make a mistake.
Wrong	phr	"On the Wrong Side of" - out of favor with (a person). 2. somewhat more than a specified age.
Wrong	phr	"The King/Queen Can Do No Wrong" - the legal and constitution principle that the Crown acts on the advice and consent of minster and cannot be held responsible.
Wrong	phr	"Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" - a second error doesn't cancel the first
Wrong	phr	"What's Wrong with That?" - why not?
Wrong	phr	"Wrong Side out - with the wrong side out; inside out.
Wrong-doer	n	A person who behaves immorally or illegally.
Wrongdoing	n	Transgression, misdemeanor, offence, evil-doing.
Wronged	adj	Transgress against, offended, maltreated, betrayed.
Wrongfoot	vb	In tennis, football, etc play so as to catch an opponent off balance. 2. disconcert, catch unprepared.
Wrongeld	n	(Wrong & yield) - a form of tallage.
Wronger	n	One who does wrong; a wrongdoer.
Wrongfoot	vb	In tennis, football, etc play so as to catch an opponent off balance. 2. disconcert, catch unprepared.
Wrong-foot	phr	"Get Off on the Wrong Foot"- start poorly, badly.
Wrong-footed	adj	Unprepared, disconcerted, off-balanced.
Wrongful	adj	Charcterized by unfairness or injustice. 2. contrary to law. 3. of a person, not entitled to the position, etc occupied.
Wrongful-birth	n	A lawsuit filing, claiming a doctor failed to advise the parents, a child may have the prospect of a serious birth defect.
Wrongfulness	n	Some quality or characteristic of being wrongful. 2. absence of right. 3.equity or justice. 4. wrongness
Wrongfully	adj	In a wrongful manner; unjust.
Wrong-headed	adj	A perverse or wrong-headed person. 2. a person who displays perversity of judgement.
Wrong-headedly	adv	In a perverse or wrong-headed manner.
Wrong-headness	n	The act of doing wrong or acting wrongheadly. 2. an instance of being wrongheaded.
Wrongish	adj	Somewhat wrong or in error.
Wrongless	adj	Devoid or free from wrong.
Wronglessly	adv	Without doing wrong or inflicting injury; harmlessly
Wrong look	n	Something that doesn't look correctly. 2. someone who doesn't look like he/she normally does.
Wrongly	adv	In a wrong, undue or inappropriate manner or fashion. 2. unfitting,
Wrong-minded	adj	Having a mind wrongly inclined; affected harmfully or prejudically injured.
Wrongness	n	State or condition of being curved or crooked. 2. crookedness. 3. a wrong bent, tendency or inclination.
Wrong side	n	The worst or undesired or unusable side of something, esp. fabric.
Wrong'un	n	(A Wrong'one; a dishonest, or criminal, person ; an unreliable, or untrainable, domestic or sporting animal.
Wrongwend(e)	adj	Distorted, turn aside, (halwende)
Wrongwise	adv	In a wrong or reserved manner.
Wroot	vb	Original form of root. 2. to turn up, dig soil with a the snout, as a pig or swine in the search or grubbing for food. 3. to dig up the earth by grubbing. 4. of worms - that burrow a d dig the earth. 5. of persons- to turn over or up the ground; to draw or cast earth.
Wrooter	n	A field worker, one who digs up the earth, soil. 2. an animal that roots.
Wrooting	n	The act of grubbing or rooting; the result of this. 2. a furrow made by a pig rooting or grubbing.
Wroth	n	Wrath.
Wrothe	adv	Wrathfully, sorrowfully, sadly.
Wrother-heal	n	Evil fate or fortune; misfortune. 2. injury, calamity or destruction.
Wrother-heal	vb	To act with evil fate or fortune, as 'in wrother-heal Bob was born'
Wrothful	adj	Full of wrath or anger.
Wrothfully	adv	In a wrathful or angry manner.
Wrothly	adj	Angry, violent.
Wrothly	adv	In a wrathful manner. 2. in a bitter or cruel manner. 3. angrily, furiously, badly, off-color.
Wroth silver	n	Money paid to the lord in lieu of castleward, i.e. a feudal obligation in return for protection, castle ward or guard being knight service for defending the lord's castle..
Wrothy	adj	Wrathful, angry.
Wrought	vb	To wright, work, perform labour.
Wrought	adj	Worked into shape or condition. 2. created, shaped, mould. 3. that is made or constructed by means of labour or art, fashioned, formed. 4. shaped, fashioned or finished from the rough or crude material, cut. 5. artificial, specially prepared. 6. of textile material: manufactured, spun. 7. decorated or ornamented, as wrought needlework, elaborated, embellished, embroidered. 8. of leather- prepared by dressing. 9. of articles: made, manufactured, or prepared for use or commerce. 10. of metals: beaten out or shaped by a hammer or tool, as in wrought iron. 11 of coal- hew or cut from the bed or seam; won; dug, moved by digging. 12. of animals: employed in labour, worked.
Wrought-iron	n	Malleable metal - made by hammering and hand, not cast.
Wrought	phr	"Wrought off" - worked off,
Wrought	phr	"Wrought Up" - tense, stirred-up, nervously strained, agitated, excited or stimulated; enlivened.
Wrought-off	adj	Worked off.
Wrought-up	adj	Tense, stirred-up, nervously strained, agitated, frenzied, excited or stimulated; enlivened.
Wrought	phr	"Wrought Upon" - influenced.
Wry	vb	To cover, veil, conceal. 2. to lay, place, spread a cover over something, cover up or cover over. 3. to cover a person with a garmnent, clothe or attire. 4. to cover a person or oneself with armour. 5. to put armour or trapping on a horse; to caparison, trap, harness. 6. to cover a person so as to keep warm.
Wry	adj	Distorted or turned to one side. 2. of a face or smile etc, contorted in disgust, disappointment or mockery. 3. of humuor, dry and mocking.
Wry	adv	In a wry manner.
Wry-eyed	adj	In a wry, oblique or distorted look.
Wrying	adj	Funny in an understated, sarcastic, or ironic way: a wry sense of humor. 2. temporarily twisted in an expression of distaste or displeasure: made a wry face. 3. archaic abnormally twisted or bent to one side; crooked: a wry nose.
Wryingly	adv	In a twisting or writhing manner.
Wryly	adv	In a wry, oblique or distorted manner.
Wry look	n	One expressive of displeasure or dislike.
Wry-mouthed	adj	A mouth marked or characterize by contortion.
Wry-neck	n	A bird of the genus lynx of small migratory birds, the common species "lynx torquilla" distinguished by its habit of writhing the neck and head.
Wryneck-day	n	Day of one's hanging, execution.
Wry-necked	adj	Having a wry or crooked neck. 2. affected with distortion of the neck.
Wryneck-ness	n	Having a wry or twisted neck , as a tortoise.
Wryness	n	Fact or condition of being wry or distorted; distortion, twisting.
Wry-toothed	adj	Having a distorted or turned tooth or teeth.