marry

To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.

Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "

To enter into marriage with one another.

Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.

To take as husband or wife.

In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.

First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon. Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup. First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice. First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you.

To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.

He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.

THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…].

To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.

A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.

His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.

A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!

You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?

I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.