Helpmeet: alternatives and connections

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife.

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family…

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or volunta…

Settlement on a wife, or jointure.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or d…

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.

A big, masculine wife.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. Sh…

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabu…

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

To dwell or live together as husband and wife.