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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.

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..

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

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

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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

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

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

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

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..

Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

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.

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