2 entries under this word

Wive

Wīve, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [From wife.] [imp. & p. p. WIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. WIVING.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife.

Wīve, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [A-S. wifian, gewifian.]

Sense 1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.

If I could get me but a wife ... I were manned, horsed, and wived. Shak.

Sense 2. To take for a wife; to espouse or to wed, as a man.

I have wived his sister. W. Scott.