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A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.

Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa. -- n.

to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial. Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.

Pertainingto, or bordering on, the river Danube.

Belonging to spoils; taken in war. [Obs.] Bailey.

Presiding over marriage. [R.]

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

age; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. "Conjugal affection." Milton.

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

n. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.

Of or pertaining to marriage; connubial; as, the married state.

To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. 1 Tim. v. 14. Marrrying man, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties. If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power. Bacon.

was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.