Husband+or+wife
41husband — Wives appear to have regularly addressed their marital partners as ‘husband’ in the seventeenth century. Shakespeare has many instances of the word being used vocatively on its own, or in phrases like ‘good husband’, ‘gentle husband’, ‘good… …
42A ship's husband — Husband Hus band, n. [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h?sbonda master of the house; h?s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h?sb[=o]ndi house master, husband; h?s house + b?andi… …
43husband — hus·band (hŭz’bənd) n. 1) A man joined to another person in marriage; a male spouse. 2) Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household. 3) Archaic A prudent, thrifty manager. tr.v. hus·band·ed, hus·band·ing, hus·bands 1) To use sparing …
44wife — see a blind man’s wife needs no paint Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple if you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be… …
45Wife carrying — The Estonian Carry . Wife carrying (Estonian: naisekandmine , Finnish: eukonkanto or akankanto, Swedish: kärringkånk) is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the… …
46Wife to Be Sacrificed — Infobox Film name = Wife to be Sacrificed caption = Poster to the Nikkatsu Roman porno film, Wife to be Sacrificed (1974) director = Masaru Konuma [Infobox data from imdb title|id=0228419|title=Ikenie fujin and Wife to Be Sacrificed The Kimstim… …
47wife-beater — /ˈwaɪf bitə/ (say wuyf beetuh) noun 1. Also, wife basher. a husband who habitually beats his wife. 2. Also, husband beater. Colloquial a very long, narrow loaf of bread. 3. a man s singlet or short sleeved T shirt. {def. 3 based on the stereotype …
48Husband's Message, The — ▪ Old English literature Old English lyric preserved in the Exeter Book, one of the few surviving love lyrics from the Anglo Saxon period. It is remarkable for its ingenious form and for its emotive power. The speaker is a wooden staff on… …
49wife — While wives in earlier times appear to have regularly addressed their partners as ‘husband’, husbands do not seem to have returned the compliment and used ‘wife’ as a normal term of address. There is a useful passage in The Taming of the… …
50Wife–sister narratives in Genesis — There are three wife sister narratives in Genesis, part of the Torah, all of which are strikingly similar. At the core of each is the tale of a Biblical Patriarch, who has come to be in the land of a powerful foreign overlord that has mistaken… …
