Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Wife
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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Wife
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(1):
(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
(2):
(n.) 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.