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Daughter-in-law :: Daughter-in-law (n.) The wife of one's son.

Sextoness :: Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Wifehood :: Wifehood (n.) Womanhood.

Goody :: Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Czarevna :: Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.

Ravishment :: Ravishment (n.) The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband..

Endogamy :: Endogamy (n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Alewife :: Alewife (n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.

Consort :: Consort (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband..

Monogamy :: Monogamy (n.) Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy..

Wittol :: Wittol (n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.

Ditty-bag :: Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife..

Matrimony :: Matrimony (n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

Fere :: Fere (n.) A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife.

Archwife :: Archwife (n.) A big, masculine wife..

Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..

Housewife :: Housewife (n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

Condonation :: Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated..

Spot :: Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband..

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