marry

Less common meanings

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   arrange a matchverbtransitive

   To arrange for someone, often your child, to be married to another.

   In the past, parents often tried to marry their daughters young.

   He married off his only son to a wealthy family.

   UsageSay marry a child to someone, or marry off a child.

   Similarwed

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   interjectionobsolete

   An old way of saying 'indeed!' or 'truly!' to stress a point.

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

   c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth,. Epilogue.”Here, marry means indeed or truly, used to stress what follows.

   I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

   c. 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of OthelloHere, Mary means indeed or truly, used to stress what is said.

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   verb

   In sailing, to join two ropes together, either side by side or end to end.