Definition of widow

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Widow (a.) Widowed.

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Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..
Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..
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..
Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.
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..
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
Widow-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..
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..
Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.
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..
Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
Widow Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..
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