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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.

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

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

Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.

Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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 deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

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..

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.

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

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

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..

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

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