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At :: At (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns..

Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

Condone :: Condone (v. t.) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife..

Orpheus :: Orpheus (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre..

Husband :: Husband (v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

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

Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Dowry :: Dowry (n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower..

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).

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..

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), from bed board..

Husbandman :: Husbandman (n.) The master of a family.

Digamous :: Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband..

Bounty :: Bounty (n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures..

Ploughman :: Ploughman (n.) One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman..

Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Cucquean :: Cucquean (n.) A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.

Managery :: Managery (n.) Husbandry; economy; frugality.

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