transitive. To wed, to marry.

transitive. To espouse, marry.

transitive. To take (a person) as one's husband or wife; to marry or be married to (someone). Also: to take (a person) as a lover. Obsolete.

transitive. To marry. Frequently in passive.

To marry. (Common in dialects; otherwise only literary.) transitive. Originally: to make (a woman) one's wife by the giving of a pledge or earnest…

transitive. To obtain in marriage, to marry. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern).

transitive. Chiefly with †in, †to, into. To accept (a person) as one's husband or wife; to enter into matrimony with; to marry. Also: to accept as a…

transitive. To take (a person, esp. a woman) as a spouse; to marry, wed. Now archaic and literary.

transitive. To take or accept as one's husband or wife.

To espouse, marry. Obsolete.

spec. as to marriage. (a) transitive and reflexive. To betroth, affiance, engage (two persons, or one person to another); passive to be betrothed or…

transitive. To take into one's employment; to engage, employ. Also: to enter into marriage with; to receive into fellowship.

To be a consort or spouse to, to espouse; to have sexual commerce with. Obsolete.

wife of one's bosom: originally a Hebraism adopted in the Bible of 1611; but its English use is influenced by senses A. 6a A. 1b (The similar phrase…

transitive. To marry; (in quot. 1887) to speak of (a wedding). Also occasionally intransitive. Also figurative.