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Rectoress :: Rectoress (n.) The wife of a rector.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife..

Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Queen :: Queen (n.) The wife of a king.

Alewife :: Alewife (n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species..

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.

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually..

Cassiopeia :: Cassiopeia (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia..

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

Uxorial :: Uxorial (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife..

Earl :: Earl (n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count..

Wively :: Wively (a.) Wifely.

Niobe :: Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone..

Wivehood :: Wivehood (n.) Wifehood.

Wive :: Wive (v. i.) To marry, as a man; to take a wife..

Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right..

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

Peeress :: Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage..

Baron :: Baron (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife..

Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..

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