Chapter Weaver to Weed of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.

Thou art wedded to calamity.

Shak.

Men are wedded to their lusts.

Tillotson.

[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.

Cowper.

4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]

They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

Clarendon.

Wed
(Wed) v. i. To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." Shak.

Weddahs
(Wed"dahs) n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Veddahs.

Wedded
(Wed"ded) a.

1. Joined in wedlock; married.

Let walth, let honor, wait the wedded dame.

Pope.

2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton.

Wedder
(Wed"der) n. See Wether. Sir W. Scott.

Wedding
(Wed"ding) n. [AS. wedding.] Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz.

Longfellow.

Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends.

Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc.

Let her beauty be her wedding dower.

Shak.

Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See under Marriage.

Weder
(Wed"er) n. Weather. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wedge
(Wedge) n. [OE. wegge, AS. wecg; akin to D. wig, wigge, OHG. wecki, G. weck a (wedge- shaped) loaf, Icel. veggr, Dan. vægge, Sw. vigg, and probably to Lith. vagis a peg. Cf. Wigg.]

1. 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.

2. (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." Shak.