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Widow Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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.

Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

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..

Discovert :: Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.

Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

Weed :: Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..

Tudor :: Tudor (a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.

Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

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..

Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..

Dower :: Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband..

Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..

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