Definition of marriage

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Marriage (v. t.) Any intimate or close union.

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Bridebed :: Bridebed (n.) The marriage bed.
Consort :: Consort (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate..
Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
Matchmaker :: Matchmaker (n.) One who tries to bring about marriages.
Offer :: Offer (v. t.) To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage..
Hymenean :: Hymenean (n.) A marriage song.
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..
Conjugal :: Conjugal (a.) Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage..
Betroth :: Betroth (v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
Polygyny :: Polygyny (n.) The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
Peeress :: Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage..
Affiance :: Affiance (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
Coverture :: Coverture (n.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte..
Bed :: Bed (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
Incest :: Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Dot :: Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Mesalliance :: Mesalliance (n.) A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.
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