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Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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

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..

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.

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

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

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

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..

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

Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..

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

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