Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OLD-WIFE
OLD-WIFE, n.
- A contemptuous name for an old prating woman. 1 Tim. iv.
- A fish of the genus Labrus, and another of the genus Balistes. Encyc.
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OLD-WIFE, n.
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