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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..

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

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

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

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..

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..

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.

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.

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

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 become, or survive as, the widow of..

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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