Definition of wife

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Wife (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.

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Sextoness :: Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's 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..
Huswifely :: Huswifely (a.) Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
Mulier :: Mulier (n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.
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..
Repudiation :: Repudiation (n.) The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc..
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Midwifery :: Midwifery (n.) The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
Husband :: Husband (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
Landgravine :: Landgravine (n.) The wife of a landgrave.
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).
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2..
Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Marriage :: Marriage (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony..
Paramour :: Paramour (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman..
Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten..
Fruitful :: Fruitful (a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife..
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4..
Obstetrics :: Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth..
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