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Widmanstatten figures

Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.

Widow (n.)

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

Widow (a.)

Widowed.

Widow (v. t.)

To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

Widow (v. t.)

To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

Widow (v. t.)

To endow with a widow's right.

Widow (v. t.)

To become, or survive as, the widow of.

Widow bird

See Whidan bird.

Widow-hunter (n.)

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.

Widow-maker (n.)

One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

Widow-wail (n.)

A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.

Widowed (imp. & p. p.)

of Widow

Widower (n.)

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.

Widowerhood (n.)

The state of being a widower.

Widowhood (n.)

The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.

Widowhood (n.)

Estate settled on a widow.

Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Widow

Widowly (a.)

Becoming or like a widow.

Width (n.)

The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Widual (a.)

Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.