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Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

Hatchment :: Hatchment (n.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement..

Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.

Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.

Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..

Widow-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..

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

Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.

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..

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.

Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.

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 endow with a widow's right.

Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..

Palsgravine :: Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

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

Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

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