Dictionary entry

Awry

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐wry″ (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.] 1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. “Your crown's awry.” Shak.

Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry.

Into the devious air.

Milton.

2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.

Or by her charms

Draws him awry, enslaved.

Milton.

Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men.

Milton.