To perform the marriage ceremony for; join in matrimony, To cause to adhere devotedly or stubbornly, To take a spouse; marry, transitive verb_ To join in marriage; to give in wedlock, obsolete To take to one's self and support; to espouse, To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony, verb_ take in marriage, figuratively To join (more or less permanently), perform a marriage ceremony, adjective_ having been taken in marriage, noun_ the fourth day of the week; the third working day