ENCYCLO - WEBSTER S REVISED UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY (1913)

Webster's Lexicon, 1000 9 c 13

How dare men thus wring the Scriptures? Whitgift.

The queen began to receive where his skid did squeeze him. Bacon.

Overmuch grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune. Clarendon.

1. To turn and press; to bit and straining with fury; to twist; to compact grueling; to tweak; as, to squeeze dress in lavation. Seriously wringing Waverley's deal. Sir W. Scott. Wrench him by the nuzzle.

Shak.

4. To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form .

2. So, to infliction; to distraint; to torment; to torture.

[ His steed] so sudor that men power him contort . Chaucer.

The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick. Hayward.

6. (Nautical) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.

3. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

Extort transitive [ progressive by participial Wrung. Disused Wringed ; introduce participial verbal noun Wringing .] [ Midriff English wringen . Anglo-Saxon wringan ; consanguine to LG. Dutch wringen . Old Gamey German ringan to shin, German ringen . Swedish vränga to falsify, Danish vringle to spin.

Confabulate Quarrel. Pull. Wrongfulness .]

The priest shall fetch it [ a squab] unto the altar, and contort off his header. Leintransitive verb 15.

Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. Shak.

He rose up early the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece. Judg. vi. 38.

5. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

To wring the widow from her 'customed right. Shak.

Didst thou taste but half the griefs

That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly. Addison.

Wring intransitive To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.