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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..

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

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.

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

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..

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

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

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) 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..

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.

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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

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