wives

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of wife
2. (form-of, genitive, obsolete)genitive of wife

   “[…] beautie in his wiues face, will féede his heart with a thouſand delights: […]”

   “[…] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake ſo unluckily, […]”

   “He found a freſh Subject for his Admiration, when he ſaw the Prickles on that which bore his Wives Name, and the two others without any.”