Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WRIT-ING-MAS-TER, n.

One who teaches the art of penmanship.

WRIT'TEN, pp.

Expressed in letters. Written laws, statutes; laws enacted by the supreme power and recorded; as, contradistinguished from unwritten or common law.

WRIZ'ZLED, pp. [for Writhled. Not in use.]

– Spenser.

WRO'KEN, pp. [for Wreaked. Not in use.]

– Spenser.

WRONG, a. [Sw. vrång; Dan. vrang; properly the participle of wring, Sw. vränga, Dan. vrænger. Literally, wrung, twisted, or turned from a straight line or even surface. Hence,]

1. Not physically right; not fit or suitable; as, the wrong side of a garment. You hold the book the wrong end uppermost. There may be something wrong in the construction of a watch or an edifice.
2. Not morally right; that deviates from the line of rectitude prescribed by God; not just or equitable; not right or proper; not legal; erroneous; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; a wrong course of life; wrong measures; wrong inclinations and desires; a wrong application of talents; wrong judgment. – Hab. i.
3. Erroneous; not according to truth; as, a wrong statement.

WRONG, adv.

Not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously. Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss. – Pope.

WRONG, n.

Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; any injury done to another; a trespass; a violation of right. Wrongs are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community. – Blackstone. Sarai said to Abraham, my wrong be on thee. – Gen. xvi. Friend, I do thee no wrong. – Matth. xx. The obligation to redress a wrong, is at least as binding as that of paying a debt. – E. Everett.

WRONG, v.t.

1. To injure; to treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from. We wrong a man, when we defraud him, and when we I trespass on his property. We wrong a man, when we neglect to pay him his due. – Philemon 18.
2. To do injustice to by imputation; to impute evil unjustly. If you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.

WRONG'-DO-ER, n.

One who injures another, or does wrong.

WRONG'-DO-ING, n.

Evil or wicked act or action.

WRONG'ED, pp.

Treated unjustly; injured.

WRONG'ER, n.

One who injures another.

WRONG'FUL, a.

Injurious; unjust; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.

WRONG'FUL-LY, adv.

Unjustly; in a manner contrary to the moral law or to justice; as, to accuse one wrongfully; to suffer wrongfully.

WRONG'HEAD, or WRONG-HEAD'ED, a. [wrong and head.]

Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.

WRONG-HEAD'ED-NESS, n.

Perverseness; erroneousness.

WRONG'ING, ppr.

Injuring; treating with injustice.

WRONG'LESS-LY, adv.

Without injury to any one. [Not used.] – Sidney.

WRONG'LY, adv.

In a wrong manner; unjustly; amiss. He judges wrongly of my motives.

WRONG'NESS, n.

Wrong disposition; error. – Butler.

WRONG'-TIM-ED, a.

Done at an improper time.

WROTE, v. [pret. of Write.]

He wrote a letter yesterday. Herodotus wrote his history more than two thousand years ago. Note. Wrote is not now used as the participle.

WROTH, a. [rauth; Sax. wræth, wrath. See Wrath.]

Very angry; much exasperated. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. – Gen. iv. I was wroth with my people. – Is. xlvii. [An excellent word, and not obsolete.]

WROUGHT, v. [pret. and pp. of Work. raut; Sax. worhte, the pret. and pp. of wircan, weorcan, to work.]

1. Worked; formed by work or labor; as, wrought iron.
2. Effected; performed. She hath wrought a good work upon me. – Matth. xxvi.
3. Effected; produced. He wrought the public safety. A great change was wrought in his mind. This wrought the greatest confusion in the unbelieving Jews. – Addison.
4. Used in labor. The elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with. – Deut. xxi.
5. Worked; driven; as, infection wrought out of the body. [Not used.] – Bacon.
6. Actuated. Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought. – Dryden.
7. Worked; used; labored in. The mine is still wrought.
8. Formed; fitted. He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God. – 2 Cor. v.
9. Guided; managed. [Not used.] – Milton.
10. Agitated; disturbed. My dull brain was wrought / With things forgot. – Shak. Wrought on or upon, influenced; prevailed on. His mind was wrought upon by divine grace. Wrought to or up to, excited; inflamed. Their minds were wrought up to a violent passion. She was wrought up to the tenderest emotions of pity.

WRUNG, v. [pret. and pp. of Wring.]