Wife

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A woman; an adult female;

— now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

II. Wife ·noun The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman;

— correlative of husband.

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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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