Definition of "wrying" [wrying]

• Present participle of wry. (verb)

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• "Rams-horne, or else with some piece of soft Ash woode: and you shall obserue that it stand plaine, flat, and leuell, without wrying or turning either vpward or downeward: for if it runne not euen vpon the earth it will neuer make a good furrow, onely as before I said, the point must looke a little downeward."
• "Deliberation sat, and public care -- 'quoted Wilfrid, with a little wrying of the lips."
• "Elliot's face grew deadly pale, her lower lip stiff, as when she was angered with me at Chinon, and so, wrying her neck suddenly to the left, she rode on her way, nor ever looked towards us again."