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

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

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

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..

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.

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..

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

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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