DuckCorp

DuckCorp Dico

(RFC 2229 compliant dictionary server)

Found 2 definitions

  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    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. [1913 Webster]

    Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    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. [1913 Webster]

    2. To take for a wife; to marry. [1913 Webster]

    I have wived his sister. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]