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

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

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

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..

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.

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

Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.

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.

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

Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..

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

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..

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

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