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Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood..

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

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..

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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..

Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..

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

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

Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

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

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..

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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