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| English Dictionary: widow |
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| 5 results for widow |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- widow
- n
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not
remarried
Synonym(s): widow, widow woman
- v
- cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women
in the former Yugoslavia"
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Widow \Wid"ow\, n. [OE. widewe, widwe, AS. weoduwe, widuwe,
wuduwe; akin to OFries. widwe, OS. widowa, D. weduwe, G.
wittwe, witwe, OHG. wituwa, witawa, Goth. widuw[?], Russ.
udova, OIr. fedb, W. gweddw, L. vidua, Skr. vidhav[be]; and
probably to Skr. vidh to be empty, to lack; cf. Gr. [?] a
bachelor. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Vidual}.]
A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not
married again; one living bereaved of a husband. [bd]A poor
widow.[b8] --Chaucer.
{Grass widow}. See under {Grass}.
{Widow bewitched}, a woman separated from her husband; a
grass widow. [Colloq.]
{Widow-in-mourning} (Zo[94]l.), the macavahu.
{Widow monkey} (Zo[94]l.), 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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Widow \Wid"ow\, a.
Widowed. [bd]A widow woman.[b8] --1 Kings xvii. 9. [bd]This
widow lady.[b8] --Shak.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Widowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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.
--Shak.
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.
--Dryden.
Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary
storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips.
Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.
--Heber.
3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak.
4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and
widow them all. --Shak.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Widow \Wid"ow\, n. (Card Playing)
In various games, any extra hand or part of a hand, as one
dealt to the table.
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