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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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.

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

Palsgravine :: Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

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..

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

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

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

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

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