Definition of widow

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Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

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Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
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..
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..
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
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..
Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.
Palsgravine :: Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
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.
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 (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
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..
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.
Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
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