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Impalement :: Impalement (n.) The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3..

Make :: Make (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife..

Ambassadress :: Ambassadress (n.) A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador..

Landgravine :: Landgravine (n.) The wife of a landgrave.

Equity :: Equity (n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc..

Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..

Spaewife :: Spaewife (n.) A female fortune teller.

Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

Uxorious :: Uxorious (a.) Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband..

Wifehood :: Wifehood (n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.

Missis :: Missis (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

Huswifely :: Huswifely (adv.) In a huswifely manner.

Husband :: Husband (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.

True :: True (n.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge..

Alimony :: Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same..

Concubine :: Concubine (n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

Happily :: Happily (adv.) In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife..

Brother-in-law :: Brother-in-law (n.) The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister..

Paraphernalia :: Paraphernalia (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree..

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