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Wed
n.
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Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
Wed
n.
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To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
Wed
v. i.
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To contact matrimony; to marry.
Weddahs
n. pl.
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See Veddahs.
Wedded
a.
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Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.
Wedder
n.
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See Wether.
Wedding
n.
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Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Wedge
n.
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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
Wedge
n.
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A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
Wedge
n.
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Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
Wedge
n.
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The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
Wedged
imp. & p. p.
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of Wedge
Wedge
v. t.
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To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
Wedge
v. t.
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To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Wedge
v. t.
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To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
Wedge
v. t.
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To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedge
v. t.
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To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
Wedge
v. t.
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To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedgebill
n.
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An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
Wedge-formed
a.
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Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
a.
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Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
a.
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Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
Wedge-shell
n.
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Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed
a.
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Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
Wedgewise
adv.
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In the manner of a wedge.
Wedgwood ware
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A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
Wedgy
a.
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Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock
v. i.
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The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
Wedlock
v. i.
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A wife; a married woman.
Wedlock
v. t.
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To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.