wid·ow /ˈwɪ(ˌ)do/
寡婦,孀婦(vt.)使成寡婦
widow
寡婦; 未排足的行; 半行; 短行( 指上頁多出移轉下頁的半行 )
widow
半行
Wid·ow, a. Widowed. “A widow woman.” --1 Kings xvii. 9. “This widow lady.”
Wid·ow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.]
1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Though in thus city he
Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak.
2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
The widowed isle, in mourning,
Dries up her tears. --Dryden.
Tress of their shriveled fruits
Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips.
Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. --Heber.
3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.]
4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow
them all. --Shak.
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Wid·ow n. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. “A poor widow.”
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.
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.
widow
n : a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not
remarried [syn: widow woman]
v : cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in
the former Yugoslavia"