Define the word Wed"Wed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Wed \Wed\, v. i.
To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." --Shak.
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"Wed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Wed \Wed\, v. t. [imp. Wedded; p. p. Wedded or Wed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Wedding.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant,
promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D.
wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan.
vedde, Sw. v[aum]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth.
See Wed, n.]
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1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to
marry; to espouse.
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With this ring I thee wed. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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I saw thee first, and wedded thee. --Milton.
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2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
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And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her. --Milton.
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3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of
marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
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Thou art wedded to calamity. --Shak.
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Men are wedded to their lusts. --Tillotson.
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[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
--Cowper.
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4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]
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They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
--Clarendon.
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"Wed" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Wed \Wed\ (w[e^]d), n. [AS. wedd; akin to OFries. wed, OD.
wedde, OHG, wetti, G. wette a wager, Icel. ve[eth] a pledge,
Sw. vad a wager, an appeal, Goth. wadi a pledge, Lith.
vad[*u]ti to redeem (a pledge), LL. vadium, L. vas, vadis,
bail, security, vadimonium security, and Gr. ?, ? a prize.
Cf. Athlete, Gage a pledge, Wage.]
A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] --Gower. Piers Plowman.
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Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a
security]. --Chaucer.
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"wed" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
wed
adj : having been taken in marriage [syn: wedded]
n : the fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: Wednesday]
v 1: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]
2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on
Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple
got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, tie, splice]
[also: wedding, wedded]
"wed" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "wed":
affiliate, ally, apply, arrange a match, associate, band together,
be in cahoots, be made one, be spliced, become one, bind, bracket,
bunch, bunch up, cabal, catch, cement a union, centralize, club,
club together, combine, come together, confederate, conjoin,
connect, consociate, conspire, contract matrimony, correlate,
couple, draw a parallel, equate, espouse, federalize, federate,
gang, gang up, get hitched, give away, go in partners,
go in partnership, hitch, hook up with, identify, intermarry,
interrelate, interwed, join, join forces, join fortunes with,
join together, join up with, join with, league, link, make a match,
make one, marry, match, mate, miscegenate, nuptial, organize, pair,
pair off, parallel, parallelize, partner, relate, relativize,
remarry, rewed, splice, stand together, stand up with,
take to wife, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie,
tie in with, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite in marriage,
unite with, wive, yoke
"WED" bouvier "Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)"
WED. A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
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