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To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.

Wifehood. [Obs.] Spenser.

Wifeless. [Obs.] Homilies.

Wifely. [Obs.] Udall.

t spurs. [Written also wyvern.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. Sir W. Scott.

, pl of Wife.

anager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

To midwife. [Obs.]

To copulate with (a woman). [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. Wilhelm. Swivel bridge, a kind of drawbridge that turns round on a vertical axis; a swing bridge. -- Swivel hook, a hook connected with the iron strap of a pulley block by a swivel joint, for readily taking the turns out of a tackle.…

Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]

A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

s, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

ng maid." Tennyson. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.

A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.

esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.