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

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

Wivern :: Wivern (n.) The weever.

Loper :: Loper (n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands..

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

Ring :: Ring (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite..

Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide..

Midwives :: Midwives (pl. ) of Midwif.

Wive :: Wive (v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.

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

Swivel :: Swive (v. t.) To copulate with (a woman).

Wyvern :: Wyvern (n.) Same as Wiver.

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..

Wivern :: Wivern (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs..

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

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

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

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

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

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..

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