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▪ I. † wrig, n.1 Obs.—1
[Cf. werg.]
The willow-tree.
1564Brasenose Coll. Munim. 19 (Berks.), [The tenant may take] boowes of the wrigges to make stakes..for the mentayning of the mowndes.
▪ II. wrig, n.2 Sc.|rɪg|
[Cf. wregling, wreckling.]
The smallest or weakest of a litter, brood, or family.
1805G. McIndoe Poems 67 Tho' [I am] the wrig In a' the nest there's nane sae big, Excepting Jock. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 700 The small weak pigs are usually nicknamed wrigs, or pock-shakings. 1899J. Colville Scot. Vernacular 15 The wee wrig, or puis-né member of the litter [of pigs].
▪ III. † wrig
obs. erron. f. rig n.4
1638N. Whiting Il Insonio Inson. 139, I have espied a plump-cheek'd bonny lass. She is a wrig, I warrant.
▪ IV. wrig, v. Now dial.|rɪg|
[? ad. LG. wriggen to twist or turn, an imitative word of the same type as wrikken; see wrick v.1]
†1. trans. To twist or bend (some flexible object) about; to cause to writhe or wriggle. Obs.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 177 The bore his tayle wrygges..Agaynst the hye benche. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. 37 Thus worms in sturdie pride Do wrigge and wrest their parts divorc'd by knife.
†2. To turn aside; to divert. Obs.—1
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 88 First thee pilot Palinure thee steerd ship wrigs to the lifthand.
3. intr. To move sinuously or writhingly; to wriggle, writhe. Now dial.
1599T. Cutwode Caltha Poet. xxxi. B 6, The Bay tree..seems to sigh..And with the wanton wind to wrig & wreath, against the god. 1854A. E. Baker Northampton Gloss. 408 The child's allus wrigging about. 1881Leicester Gloss. s.v. |