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Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower..

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

Weed :: Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..

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

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

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

Widow-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..

Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..

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

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

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

Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.

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.

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.

Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

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

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..

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