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Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope.

See Wether. Sir W. Scott.

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.

Weather. [Obs.] Chaucer.

vy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.

A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.

Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. Wedge-formed characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded.

Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

ecies of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk. -- Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull (Rhodostethia…

An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.

In the manner of a wedge.

eing molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.

Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.

te, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday. Ash Wednesday. See in the Vocabulary.

Very small; little. [Colloq. & Scot.] A little wee face, with a little yellow beard. Shak.

The wych-elm. [Obs.] Bacon.

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowweeds." Spenser. "Woman's weeds." Shak. "This beggar woman's weed." Tennyson. He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off. Chapman.