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

Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..

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

Palsgravine :: Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..

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

Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..

Widow Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.

Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Viduage :: Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively..

Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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..

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..

Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

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.

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