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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Widow \Wid"ow\ (w[i^]d"[-o]), n. [OE. widewe, widwe, AS. weoduwe, widuwe, wuduwe; akin to OFries. widwe, OS. widowa, D. weduwe, G. wittwe, witwe, OHG. wituwa, witawa, Goth. widuw[=o], Russ. udova, OIr. fedb, W. gweddw, L. vidua, Skr. vidhav[=a]; and probably to Skr. vidh to be empty, to lack; cf. Gr. "hi`qeos a bachelor. [root]248. Cf. {Vidual}.] A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Card Playing) In various games (such as "hearts"), any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table. It may be taken by one of the players under certain circumstances. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Grass widow}. See under {Grass}. {Widow bewitched}, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.] {Widow-in-mourning} (Zool.), the macavahu. {Widow monkey} (Zool.), a small South American monkey ({Callithrix lugens}); -- so called on account of its color, which is black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face. {Widow's chamber} (Eng. Law), in London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Widow \Wid"ow\, a. Widowed. "A widow woman." --1 Kings xvii. 9. "This widow lady." --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Widowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Widowing}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. [1913 Webster] Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. [1913 Webster] The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster] Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. --Heber. [1913 Webster] 3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: widow n 1: a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried [syn: {widow}, {widow woman}] v 1: cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"