bride

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A woman who is about to be married or has recently been married.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bridle.
• noun In needlework, lacemaking, etc., a loop, link, or tie.
• To make a bride of; marry.
• To act like a bride; assume the air of a bride.
• noun A woman newly married, or about to be married.
• noun A name of the American wood or summer duck, Aix sponsa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To make a bride of.
• noun A woman newly married, or about to be married.
• noun Fig.: An object ardently loved.
• noun the city of Venice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework.
• noun A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.
• verb obsolete To make a bride of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a woman who has recently been married
• noun Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
• noun a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony