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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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.

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

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..

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.

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..

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..

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

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