Definition of wife

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Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like..

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Marry :: Marry (v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
Volunteer :: Volunteer (a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made..
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2..
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) One who murders his wife.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..
Peeress :: Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage..
Goody :: Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
Mother-in-law :: Mother-in-law (n.) The mother of one's husband or wife.
Wivehood :: Wivehood (n.) Wifehood.
Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Rani :: Rani (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) The murder of a wife by her husband.
Fruitful :: Fruitful (a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife..
Spouse :: Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife..
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..
Frigga :: Frigga (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Midwife :: Midwife (v. t.) To assist in childbirth.
Literally :: Literally (adv.) According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh..
Jealousy :: "Jealousy (n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover..
Make :: Make (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife..
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