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. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak.

A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11.

The wife of one's son.

The title of the wife of the dauphin.

To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

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

the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

legiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now." Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This jus…

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

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. With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. Tennyson. Queen dowager, the widow of a king.

That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. [Obs.] His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown. Dryden.

er. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give . . .; but give me the damsel to wife. Gen. xxxiv. 12.

The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

nsensible; unfeeling. Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife. Beau. & Fl.

an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.