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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Widow \Wid"ow\, adjective Widowed. ''A widow woman.'' --1 Kings xvii. 9. ''This widow lady.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Widow \Wid"ow\, verb (used with an object) [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.] --Shak.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Widow \Wid"ow\ (w[i^]d"[-o]), noun [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.
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} (Zo["o]l.), the macavahu.
{Widow monkey} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
widow
noun: a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried [syn: {widow woman}]
verb: cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
WIDOW, noun A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
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