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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Jealousy :: "Jealousy (n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover..
Wive :: Wive (v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.
Housewive :: Housewive (v. t.) To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize..
Dauphine :: Dauphine (n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin.
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..
Rectoress :: Rectoress (n.) The wife of a rector.
Wifely :: Wifely (a.) Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.
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..
Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife..
Espouse :: Espouse (v. t.) To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
Stepfather :: Stepdaughter (n.) A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Family :: Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society..
Wifehood :: Wifehood (n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.
Sea Bream :: Sea bream () Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife..
Digamous :: Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Partner :: Partner (n.) One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. Partner of his fortune. Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business..
Goody :: Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife..
Disloyal :: Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife..
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