WREST
\ɹˈɛst], \ɹˈɛst], \ɹ_ˈɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of WREST
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
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To tune with a wrest, or key.
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The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
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Active or moving power.
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A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
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A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
By Oddity Software
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To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
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To tune with a wrest, or key.
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The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
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Active or moving power.
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A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
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A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
By Noah Webster.
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To twist, wrench, or force by violence; as, they wrested victory from defeat; to turn from its natural meaning; pervert.
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Twist; violence; the act of taking by force.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To twist from by force: to twist from truth or from its natural meaning.
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Violent pulling and twisting: distortion.
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WRESTER.
By Daniel Lyons
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WRESTER.
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To twist; wrench; turn from the true meaning, etc.
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An act of wresting.
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A key for tuning a stringed instrument.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. Violent pulling and twisting; distortion; perversion;-a key or hammer used in tuning a stringed instrument.
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- American journalist, verse-writer, editor, lecturer; born in New York city, Oct. 2, 1835. was long known as editor on the Independent(1856-72). established Golden Age(newspaper), but retired from it after two years. 1883 went abroad, where remained. Besides numerous essays fugitive pieces, he has published: "The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems"(1867); "Sanctum Sanctorum; or, An Editor's Proof Sheets"(1869); "Tempest-Tossed", a romance(1873); "Thou I"(1880); "Suabian Stories",(1882). Died 1907.