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

Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

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..

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

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

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.

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

Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

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

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..

Dower :: Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband..

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