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De - Pt| English Dictionary: wive | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for wive | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wiving}.] [AS. w[c6]fian, gew[c6]fian. See {Wite}.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Wive \Wive\, v. t. 1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. [bd]An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived.[b8] --Shak. 2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. --Sir W. Scott. | |
