Wive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wiving}.] [AS. w[imac]fian, gew[imac]fian. See {Wite}.]
     To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
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           Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive.   --Chaucer.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wive \Wive\, v. t.
     1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. "An I could
        get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived."
        --Shak.
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     2. To take for a wife; to marry.
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              I have wived his sister.              --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wive
       v 1: take (someone) as a wife
       2: marry a woman, take a wife
       3: provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife