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The alewife. [Local, U.S.]

the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife. [Utah, U.S.] If a man once married desires a second helpmate . . . she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church. H. Stansbury.

woman independent of her husband. -- Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. -- Sep"a*rate*ly, adv. -- Sep"a*rate*ness, n.

er's. -- To set on or upon. (a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this." Shak. (b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to observe." Shak. (c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some object. See definition 2, above. -- To set one's cap for.…

To make a jointure for a wife. He sighs with most success that settles well. Garth.

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.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

e prosperity, or else that good men have adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish. My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shak. -- Shrew"ish*ly, adv. -- Shrew"ish*ness, n.

sease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

To sigh. [Obs.] That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore. Chaucer.

The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.

e . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel.

A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

ith great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.

Former; sometime. [Obs.] Thy sometimes brother's wife. Shak.

The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

nd fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.

ned; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior. A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. Waller.