Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..
Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
Widow-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..
Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower..