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Caster :: Caster (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved..

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Amusette :: Amusette (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel..

Swivel :: Swivel (a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun..

Swivel-eyed :: Swivel (v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot..

Midwive :: Midwive (v. t.) To midwife.

Swivel :: Swivel (a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis..

Seraglio :: Seraglio (n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery..

Polygamous :: Polygamous (a.) Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous marriages; -- opposed to monogamous..

Polygyny :: Polygyny (n.) The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.

Swizzle :: Swivel-eyed (a.) Squint-eyed.

Trigamist :: Trigamist (n.) One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time..

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

Polygamy :: Polygamy (n.) The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry..

Midwives :: Midwives (pl. ) of Midwif.

Jingal :: "Jingal (n.) A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel..

Wiver :: Wiver (n.) Alt. of Wiver.

Wively :: Wively (a.) Wifely.

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

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