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

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

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..

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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..

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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..

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.

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

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

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

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

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