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Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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 Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.

Third :: Third (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life..

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

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

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

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.

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..

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

Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..

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..

Viduage :: Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively..

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

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..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

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