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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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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.
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.