Wrist

risi, n. (Anat.) The joint by which the hand is united to the arm. [AS., wridhan = E. to writhe (q. twist; wrest.] — Wrist'band, That part of a shirt sleeve which covers the wrist. Write, v. [imp. wrote (rot) p. p. writ (obs.) or written; writing.] To set down (legible characters) to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument to expre in legible or intelligible characters, inscribe to set down in an epistle, communicate by letter to compose or produce, as an author to impre durably to make known by writing, record, copy, transcribe, compose, recite.— v. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas to be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to frame or combine ideas and expre them in words to recite or relate in books, compose. [AS. writ an (imp. wrat, p. p. writen), to write, inscribe, orig. to score, engrave, in OS., to cut, injure, also to write, lc. rit a, to scratch, cut, write, Goth, writs, 2, eks, the 24th letter of the Eng. alphabet, is borrowed, as to form, from the Greek X at the end of words, has the sound of ks, as in wax in the middle, the sound of ks, or sometimes of gz, as in example: at the beginning of a word, it has the sound of