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• Wife

  ·noun A woman; an adult female; — now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Wife

  The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the ori...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Wife

  [Marriage] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Pudding wife

  ·add. ·- A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• dog's wife

  Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• old-wife

  n. a New South Wales fish, Enoplosus armatus, White, family Percidae.The local name Old-Wife in Eng...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• old-wife

  The popular name of a brown duck, one of the most common throughout North America, the long-tailed D...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• fish-wife

  , or fish-woman. A female carrier and vendor of fish in our northern cities. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• old wife

  A fish about 2 feet long, and 9 inches high in the back, having a small mouth, a large eye, a broad ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• left-handed wife

  A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• wife in water colours

  A mistress, or concubine; water colours being, like their engagements, easily effaced, or dissolved....

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Pharaoh, The Wife Of

  The wife of one Pharaoh, the king who received Hadad the Edomite, is mentioned in Scripture. She is ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary