Word Meanings - WEDDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton.

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• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• MARRIABLE
  Marriageable. Coleridge.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• MARRIER
  One who marries.
• JOINER
  1. One who, or that which, joins. 2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak. 3. A wood-working machine, for
• JOINTING
  The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
• JOINT
  A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. (more info) 1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting
• WEDLOCK
  lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• JOINTURESS
  See BOUVIER
• JOINERY
  The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke.
• WEDDING
  Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
• WEDDAHS
  See VEDDAHS
• JOINTED
  Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• WEDDED
  1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton.
• JOINTER
  1. One who, or that which, joints. 2. A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined; especially: The longest plane used by a joiner. A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves. A bent piece
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• UNJOINTED
  Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
• SURREJOIN
  To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• LAP-JOINTED
  Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
• REJOINT
  1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.
• UNJOIN
  To disjoin.
• CONJOINTLY
  In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne.
• ENJOIN
  To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent. Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• WATER JOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.