Wifenoun
Plural wives A woman that has a husband.
Etymology: wif , Saxon; wiff, Dutch.
Your claim, fair sister,I bar it in the interest of my wife. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
There’s no bottom, noneIn my voluptuousness; your wives, your daughters,Your matrons and your maids could not fill upThe cistern of my lust. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
Why saidst thou, she is my sister? so I might he taken her to me to wife. Gen. xii. 19.
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,Safest and seemliest by her husband stays. John Milton.
The wife her husband murders, he the wife. Dryden.
Fond of his friend, and civil to his wife. Alexander Pope.
Strawberry wives lay two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest are little ones. Francis Bacon.