ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation † ; amorous glances.
courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading;
caterwauling.
flirting &c v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry.
true lover's knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine.
honeymoon; Strephon and Chloe † .
V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the
chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of;
cherish, foster, kill with kindness.
clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace,
kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss; salute &c (courtesy) 894; fold to the heart, press to the
bosom.
bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love;
pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo;
set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les
yeux doux [Fr.].
fall in love with, win the affections &c (love) 897; die for.
propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question; plight one's troth, plight one's
faith.
Adj. caressing &c v.; sighing like furnace [Shakespeare]; love-sick, spoony.
caressed &c v..
Phr. faint heart neer won fair lady; kisses honeyed by oblivion [G.
Eliot].
903. Marriage -- N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation,
the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii [Lat.], nuptial tie.
married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
match; betrothment &c (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals,
spousals; leading to the altar &c v.; nuptial benediction, epithalamium † ; sealing.
torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.
bridesmaid, bridesman † , best man; bride, bridegroom.
married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist † , Benedict, partner, spouse,
mate, yokemate † ; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's
bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.
feme [Fr.], feme coverte [Fr.]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood † ; man
and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.
monogamy, bigamy, digamy † , deuterogamy † , trigamy † , polygamy; mormonism;
levirate † ; spiritual wifery † , spiritual wifeism † ; polyandrism † ; Turk, bluebeard † .
unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage;
mesalliance; mariage de convenance [Fr.].
marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau,
matchmaker; schatchen [G.].
V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed,
espouse, get hitched [U.S.], lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse', give
one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon.