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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



... eloquent preacher, but remembered in our time chiefly as one of that small circle in which the fierce spirit of Swift, tortured by disappointed ambition, by remorse, and by the approaches of madness, sought for amusement and repose. Dr. Delany had long been dead. His widow, nobly descended, eminently accomplished, and retaining, in spite of the infirmities of advanced age, the vigour of her faculties, and the serenity of her temper, enjoyed and deserved the favour of the royal ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... sunlight. Nearer at hand thatched farmhouses smoked, signs that the yeomen were enjoying the fruits of victory. Hope pointed to Farranshane, where William Orr's house was burning—a witness to a malignity so bitter that it wreaked the vengeance from which the dead man was safe on his widow and ...
— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham
... possessed was a middle-aged woman, the widow of one Andrew M'Cosh, a Clyde riveter, who had drifted from her native city of Glasgow to Priorsford. She had a sweet, worn face, and a neat cap with a black velvet ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... The Everlasting Mercy and The Widow of Bye Street showed, that dirt and dross, if wrought into tragedy, can win a higher beauty than the harmonies of idyll. Even the hideous elder women in Mr. Bottomley's Lear's Wife, or his Regan—an ill-conditioned ...
— Recent Developments in European Thought • Various
... of Religion and Virtue. They had good plain food, suited to their position in life, and healthy exercise in the way of Manly Sports and Ladylike Recreations. He quoted texts from the Scriptures, about the sight of the Widow touching those chords which vibrate sympathetically in all of us, and a lot of stuff about a Cup of Cold Water and These Little Ones. He ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke


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