1. (v. t.) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.

2. (v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband.

3. (v. t.) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

4. (v. t.) To take for husband or wife.

5. (v. t.) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

6. (v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

7. (interj.) Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.

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