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A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security]. Chaucer.

See Veddahs.

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.

A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." Shak.

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.

A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being 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.

Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.