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wrest (iou) and adenolymphoma (medicine)


wrest (iou)



wrest verb. Also wrast.

I. verb trans.
Turn, twist. Also foll. by away, round, etc. OE.
Marvell The heliotrope flower..wrests its neck in turning after the warm sun.
b. Tighten (the strings of a musical instrument) or tune (a stringed instrument) by means of a wrest. Also foll. by up. OE-E17.
c. Put in with a twisting movement. Chiefly fig. L16-L17.
Pull, pluck, or detach with a wrench or twist; fig. seize or obtain (esp. power or control) with effort or difficulty; take forcible control of. Freq. foll. by from. ME.
R. L. Stevenson These..tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp. H. A. L. Fisher In two brief campaigns he wrested from the Lombards all the country which they had won. R. Niebuhr A minority..may attempt to wrest control of the state apparatus from the majority. S. Kingsley You've got to wrest the Leadership of the Federalist Party away from him! R. MacNeil It built character to go to sea, to wrest your living from it.
b. Force out (a sound or word); utter, esp. with difficulty. LME-L16.
a. Dispose or influence (a person, a person's feelings) in a given direction. Freq. foll. by to do. ME-E17.
R. Greene A yong man is like a tender plant, apt to be wrested by nurture either to good or euill.
b. Divert, draw (the attention, gaze, etc.) away from one thing to another. LME-M18.
Deflect or divert to a different purpose, esp. an improper one. E16.
G. Berkeley Cunning men, who bend and wrest the public interest to their own private ends.
a. Affect with griping pain; rack. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
b. Strain the muscles of (a joint etc.); sprain (the foot etc.). Chiefly Scot. M16.
Strain or distort the meaning or interpretation of (words, a writer, a law, etc.), esp. to suit one's own interest or views. (Earlier as wresting verbal noun.) M16.
Sir W. Scott You appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made. C. Kingsley When you try to wrest Scripture and history to your own use. H. P. Brougham A Pemberton wresting the rules of evidence, to the sacrifice of innocent persons.
b. Derive (a pedigree) improperly from a person; corrupt the form of (a word). L16-E18.
II. verb intrans.
Struggle, contend. ME-E17.
Force a way. LME-L16.
wrester noun a person who wrests something; esp. (a) a person who tunes a musical instrument with a wrest; (b) a person who strains or distorts the meaning of words etc.: E16.
wresting verbal noun the action of the verb; an instance of this: LME.

adenolymphoma (medicine)


adenolymphoma
<oncology, tumour> A benign tumour characterised histologically by tall columnar epithelium within a lymphoid tissue stroma. It is usually found in the salivary glands, especially the parotid.