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Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.

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..

Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.

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

Tudor :: Tudor (a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth..

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

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 :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

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

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

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

Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in 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.

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

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

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

Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.

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