Definition of wife

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Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like..

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Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband..
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2..
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A worthless woman; a hussy.
Czarevna :: Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..
Constabless :: Constabless (n.) The wife of a constable.
Deuterogamy :: Deuterogamy (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy..
Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Viscountess :: Viscountess (n.) The wife of a viscount.
Saraswati :: Saraswati (n.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry..
Cuckold :: Cuckold (v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress..
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A housewife or housekeeper.
Housewife :: Housewife (v. t.) Alt. of Housewiv.
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place..
Obstetrics :: Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth..
Midwive :: Midwive (v. t.) To midwife.
Paraphernalia :: Paraphernalia (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree..
A Mensa Et Thoro :: A mensa et thoro () A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife..
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