\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.