{ } v. t. To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To midwife. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. swiven, fr. AS. swīfan. See Swivel. ] To copulate with (a woman). [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. swīfan to move quickly, to remove; akin to Icel. sveifla to whirl, shake, svīfa to ramble, to turn. See Swoop, and cf. Swift a reel, Swift, a. ] 1. (Mech.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swivel bridge, a kind of drawbridge that turns round on a vertical axis; a swing bridge. --
Swivel hook, a hook connected with the iron strap of a pulley block by a swivel joint, for readily taking the turns out of a tackle. --
Swivel joint, a joint, the two pieces composing which turn round, with respect to each other, on a longitudinal pin or axis, as in a chain, to prevent twisting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Squint-eyed. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wived p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving. ] [ AS. wīfian, gewīfian. See Wite. ] To marry, as a man; to take a wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. “An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take for a wife; to marry. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wifehood. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wifeless. [ Obs. ] Homilies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wifely. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See Viper, and cf. Weever. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [ Written also wyvern. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., pl. of Wife. [ 1913 Webster ]