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Widow   /wˈɪdoʊ/   Listen
noun
Widow  n.  
1.
A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow."
2.
(Card Playing) In various games (such as "hearts"), any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table. It may be taken by one of the players under certain circumstances.
Grass widow. See under Grass.
Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. (Colloq.)
Widow-in-mourning (Zool.), the macavahu.
Widow monkey (Zool.), a small South American monkey (Callithrix lugens); so called on account of its color, which is black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face.
Widow's chamber (Eng. Law), in London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled.


verb
Widow  v. t.  (past & past part. widowed; pres. part. widowing)  
1.
To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; rarely used except in the past participle. "Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury."
2.
To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. "The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears." "Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail." "Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn."
3.
To endow with a widow's right. (R.)
4.
To become, or survive as, the widow of. (Obs.) "Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all."


adjective
Widow  adj.  Widowed. "A widow woman." "This widow lady."





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"Widow" Quotes from Famous Books



... to her spirit and grateful to her sensibility, were the scenes which her fancy delineated; now she supported an orphan, now softened the sorrows of a widow, now snatched from iniquity the feeble trembler at poverty, and now rescued from shame the proud struggler with disgrace. The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her imagination; she regarded herself as an agent of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... Olive; you are the widow of that honest man Blake. Heaven rest his soul!' returned the old woman doggedly. 'We must be having the doctors to you, Miss Olive avick, if you tell us these ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... not asserted that she had—she was severely boycotted. The brother, who was the guilty party, if anybody was guilty, was rather out of the way, and being a substantial farmer, quite able to hold his own, could not be got at. But Mrs. Taylor was a widow, and lived by running a corn mill. Nobody went near it, nobody would have anything to do with the widow, who, however, struggled on, until the mill was burnt to the ground. She was compensated by the County, and rebuilt the mill. This spring it was again ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... advertised for a clergyman's widow to render some secretarial service, and the ambitious Mrs. Badger had applied, duly weeded. Meanwhile the elderly Lady T. had seen her fiance and with the young person in pink, and it was a brilliant and base afterthought to bribe the clergyman's ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 7, 1920 • Various
... of the eleventh of April, 1787, the house of a widow in Bourbon county, Kentucky, became the scene of a deplorable adventure. She occupied what was called a double cabin, in a lonely part of the county. One room was tenanted by the old lady herself, together with two grown sons, and a widowed ...
— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman


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