Eat worms and such wretchedness.
Chaucer.
Wretch"ful (?), a. Wretched. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Wretch"less, a. [See Reckless.] Reckless; hence, disregarded. [Obs.] —
Wretch"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] — Wretch"less*ness, n. [Obs.] Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor.
J. Webster.
Wrey (?), v. t. See Wray. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Wrie (?), a. & v. See Wry. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Wrig (?), v. i. To wriggle. [Obs.] Skelton.
Wrig"gle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wriggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Wriggling (?).] [Freq. of wrig, probably from OE. wrikken to move to
and fro; cf. LG. wriggeln, D. wrikken, Sw. vricka, Dan. vrikke.] To
move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to
squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as
the cushion lasted.
Swift.
Wrig"gle, v. t. To move with short, quick contortions; to move by
twisting and squirming; like a worm.
Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole.
Fuller.
Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over.
Hudibras.
Wrig"gle, a. Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible. [Obs.] "Their wriggle
tails." Spenser.
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Wrig"gler (?), n. One who, or that which, wriggles. Cowper.
Wright (?), n. [OE. wrighte, writhe, AS. wyrtha, fr. wyrcean to work.
√145. See Work.] One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing
business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a
worker in wood; — now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright,
wheelwright, etc.
He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
Chaucer.
Wright"ine (?), n. (Chem.) A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East
Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a
bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy
for diarrhœa. Called also conessine, and neriine.
Wring (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrung (?), Obs. Wringed (&?;); p. pr. &
vb. n. Wringing.] [OE. wringen, AS. wringan; akin to LG. & D. wringen,
OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vränga to distort, Dan. vringle
to twist. Cf. Wrangle, Wrench, Wrong.]
1. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe;
to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing. "Earnestly
wringing Waverley's hand." Sir W. Scott. "Wring him by the nose." Shak.
[His steed] so sweat that men might him wring.
Chaucer.
The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
Bacon.
The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his
head.
Lev. i. 15.