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Marriage brokage. (a) The
business of bringing about marriages. (b)
The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a
marriage. -- Marriage favors, knots of
white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings. --
Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement
of property in view, and in consideration, of marriage.

Syn. -- Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials. --
Marriage, Matrimony, Wedlock. Marriage is
properly the act which unites the two parties, and
matrimony the state into which they enter.
Marriage is, however, often used for the state as well as the
act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon term for
matrimony.

Mar`riage*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality or state of being marriageable.

Mar"riage*a*ble (?), a. Fit for,
or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is
allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness,
n.

Mar"ried (?), a.


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