wry-mouthn.
/ˈrʌɪmaʊθ/, U.S. /ˈraɪˌmaʊθ/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > of specific muscles
dog spasm1615
wry-mouth1661
risus sardonius1663
lifeblood1733
locked jaw1754
laryngismus1822
podism1858
blepharospasm1872
Saturday night palsy1887
wrist clonus1888
cardiospasm1896
pylorospasm1898
wrist jerk1899
histrionic spasm1912
main d'accoucheur1926
twister's cramp-
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 29 The gall of a wild Cat is very good against the wry mouth.
1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1283 Tortura,..formerly used for Spasmus, chiefly of a part, as of the face or the mouth; wry-mouth.
2.
a. attributive. = wry-mouthed adj. 1. Also elliptical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] > contorted > mouth or face
wry-mouthed1552
wry-faced1607
wry-mouth1652
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > types of
round-mouthed?1473
shevel?1507
tut-mouthed?a1513
wry-mouthed1552
pouch-mouth1565
plaice-moutha1569
out-lipped1570
pouch-mouthed?a1592
flap-mouthed1594
wide-mouthed1594
plaice-mouthed1595
big-mouthed1602
sparrow-mouthed1611
stretch-moutheda1616
splay-mouthed1647
wry-mouth1652
whale-mouthed1656
out-mouthed1698
spout-mouthed?1711
mickle-mouthed1720
sheveling-gabbit1725
mickle-mouth1863
tenible1871
primped1935
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila viii. lxxxiv. 120 No wry-mouth squint-ey'd Scoff can stay Their swift Progression.
1655 E. Gayton Wil: Bagnal's Ghost 3 Thick Ling and wry mouth Plaise.
1881 E. P. Hood Christmas Evans iv. 120 Of wry-mouth fiends a wrathful brood.
b. One who has a distorted mouth.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > types of > person having
mussel shell1602
wry-mouth1840
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 316/1 [It] had fallen into disuse since the death of Boleslav the Wry-mouth.
3. U.S.
a. One or other fish belonging to the genus Cryptacanthodes of blennioid fishes, and native to the north-western Atlantic.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > family Blenniidae > crytacanthodes or wry-mouth
wry-mouth1844
1844 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 47 60 Cryptacanthodes maculatus, Storer, Spotted Wry-mouth.
1890 Science Apr. 212/1 The sea-raven, the rock-eel, and the wry-mouth, which inhabit these brilliant groves, are all colored to match their surroundings.
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b. The electric ray or torpedo ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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