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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



... begged for Hendrika's life in moving terms. She pleaded the savagery of the woman's nature, her long service, and the affection that she had always shown towards herself. She said that I, whose life had been attempted, forgave her, and she, my wife, who had nearly been left a widow before she was made a bride, forgave her; let them forgive her also, let her be sent away, not slain, let not her marriage day ...
— Allan's Wife • H. Rider Haggard
... talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all: We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace. For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... Shadwell's comedy, The True Widow, produced at the Duke's Theatre, Dorset Garden, 21 March, 1678, and it is printed with all copies of that play. It was, no doubt, used on the present occasion by permission of Dryden. It will be noticed that the Epilogue to The Widow Ranter ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... Brussels, and soon afterward met his future wife in Germany. Princess Victoire Marie Louise was the youngest daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and widow of Prince Charles of Leiningen, who on his death had left her as the ...
— Queen Victoria • E. Gordon Browne
... never encouraged in my life coming to stay in the neighbourhood and turning up daily for rejection; another man taking rooms at the very hotel with the avowed purpose of making my life a burden; and on the heels of both, a widow of thirty-five in full chase! Small wonder I thought it more dignified to retire than to compete, and so ...
— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin


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