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wryneck|ˈraɪnɛk|
Also wry-neck.
[f. wry a. 1 + neck n.]
1. One or other species of the genus Iynx of small migratory scansorial picoid birds; esp. the common species, Iynx torquilla, distinguished by its habit of writhing the neck and head.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 59/2 Iynx torquilla,..a wrynecke. 1611Cotgr., Turcot,..the little ash-coloured and long-tongued bird, called a Wrynecke. 1676Grew Museum, Anat. Stomach viii. 38 A Young Wryneck..hath no Crop, and but a small Gulet. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 402 Jynx, the wry-neck,..has a very singular way of twisting it's head about, and bending it's neck; it thence obtained..the name..of the Wry-neck. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. I. 181 The Wryneck we believe to be a bird of passage... It takes its name from a manner it has of turning its head back to the shoulders. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. ix. (1816) I. 288 The wryneck and the woodpeckers..live entirely upon insects. 1839–43Yarrell Brit. Birds II. 152 As the Wryneck makes its appearance here about the same time as the Cuckoo, it has..acquired the names of Cuckoo's Mate, and Cuckoo's Maid. 1888Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 652/2 The Picidæ [include] ..at least three Sub⁓families... The Woodpeckers proper,..the Piculets,..and the Wrynecks.
†b. An infusorian (see quot.). Obs.—1
1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 149 The Volvox torquilla, or wry⁓neck.
2. a. One who has a wry neck.
Earlier versions of quot. 1879 have the form wrynot.
1607R. [Carew] tr. Estienne's World Wond. 300 They learne..to looke downe to the ground, to counterfet wry⁓necks. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 172 Of them is the Proverb, Never trust a wry Neck. 1656R. Flecknoe Diarium 2 And wry-neck they would ask with laughter, What newes 'twas he was hearkning after? 1879W. Henderson Folk-Lore N.C. vii. 254 He caps Wryneck, and Wryneck caps the Dule [= Devil].
b. attrib. = wry-necked a. 2.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 129 The wrynecke Earle of Lancaster. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) To Rdr., Th' art no wri-neck critick. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 255/2 A son..known as Henry Tort-Col or Wryneck... This Henry Wryneck died in 1361.
†c. Cant. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Wry Neck Day, hanging day.
3. Path. A deformity characterized by contortion of the neck and face, and lateral inclination of the head; stiff-neck; = torticollis.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Wry-Necked, If the Wry⁓neck proceeds from a contraction of one of the mastoide muscles. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 334 This species, therefore, offers us the three following varieties:..Natural wry-neck... Spastic wry-neck... Atonic wry-neck. 1872T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (1884) II. 345 Wry-neck is an example of this affection [sc. rigid atrophy] due to a contracted sterno-mastoid muscle. 1881W. Rivington in Brain IV. 257 The ordinary form of spasmodic wry-neck.
b. (See quot.) rare—0.
1819Rees Cycl., Wry-neck, a disease of the spasmodic kind in sheep, in which the head is drawn forcibly to one side. [Hence in Webster (1828–32), and later Dicts.] |