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Wive
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. "An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived." Shak.
2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.