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Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

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

Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own 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 :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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

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..

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

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

Hatchment :: Hatchment (n.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement..

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

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..

Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.

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

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.

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

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

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

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