Crossword clues for widow
widow
- Extra cards dealt to the table
- Survivor, of a sort
- She'll get what's coming to her
- She may remarry
- Orphan's kin, in typesetting
- Lehár operetta "The Merry __"
- Lehar operetta "The Merry ___"
- Black or merry
- Black __ spider
- 'The Merry '
- WWII telegram recipient, maybe
- Word with golf
- Word on the spider variety list
- Woman in black, perhaps
- Target for Joseph Cotten in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt"
- Short line at the top of a column, in typesetting
- She was left alone
- Set of cards dealt to the table
- One may remarry
- Merry ___ (strapless corset)
- Lehar's merry one
- Lehar's ''The Merry ___''
- Frequent heir
- Franz Lehár operetta, "The Merry ___"
- Follower of black or merry
- Dowager queen, e.g
- Black or golf follower
- Black -- (spider type)
- Black ___ (Marvel character)
- Black ___ (deadly spider)
- Black ___ (dangerous bug)
- "The Merry ___" (Lehar operetta)
- Word with golf or grass
- Golf ___
- LehГЎr's "The Merry ___"
- LГ©har's "The Merry ___"
- To whom a husband leaves an estate
- Typesetting no-no
- Certain heiress
- Typographical no-no
- A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
- Léhar's "The Merry ___"
- Status of 16 Across's mother at his birth
- Golfer's wife, perhaps
- Incomplete line, to a printer
- Dowager, sometimes
- In cards, an extra hand
- Relict
- Lehar's was merry
- Opportunity to sacrifice knight and queen missing mate?
- Woman who has lost her husband
- Bereaved wife
- Bereaved person needing suitable period to drop name
- Twankey's social status?
- The Merry —, operetta
- Black ____ spider
- Black ___ spider
- Typographical runover
- Heiress, perhaps
- Golfer's nonplaying wife, facetiously
- Bereaved woman
- Heiress, at times
- Extra set of cards
- Extra hand of cards
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Widow \Wid"ow\, a.
Widowed. ``A widow woman.''
--1 Kings xvii. 9. ``This widow
lady.''
--Shak.
Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.]
-
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. -
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. To endow with a widow's right. [R.]
--Shak.-
To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.
--Shak.
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.
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 (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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English widewe, wuduwe, from Proto-Germanic *widuwo (cognates: Old Saxon widowa, Old Frisian widwe, Middle Dutch, Dutch weduwe, Dutch weeuw, Old High German wituwa, German Witwe, Gothic widuwo), from PIE adjective *widhewo (cognates: Sanskrit vidhuh "lonely, solitary," vidhava "widow;" Avestan vithava, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic vidova, Russian vdova, Old Irish fedb, Welsh guedeu "widow;" Persian beva, Greek eitheos "unmarried man;" Latin viduus "bereft, void"), from root *weidh- "to separate" (source of second element in Latin di-videre "to divide;" see with).\n
\nExtended to "woman separated from or deserted by her husband" from mid-15c. (usually in a combination, such as grass widow). As a prefix to a name, attested from 1570s. Meaning "short line of type" (especially at the top of a column) is 1904 print shop slang. Widow's mite is from Mark xii:43. Widow's peak is from the belief that hair growing to a point on the forehead is an omen of early widowhood, suggestive of the "peak" of a widow's hood. The widow bird (1747) so-called in reference to the long black tail feathers of the males, suggestive of widows' veils.
early 14c.; see widow (n.). Related: Widowed; widowing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A woman whose husband has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. 2 (context informal in combination English) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. 3 An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. 4 (context printing English) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column. 5 A venomous spider, of the genus ''Latrodectus''. vb. (context transitive English) To make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse.
WordNet
v. cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"
n. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried [syn: widow woman]
Wikipedia
Widów may refer to the following places:
- Widów, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
- Widów, Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland)
- Widów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)
A widow is a woman whose husband has died.
Widow or The Widow may also refer to:
- Widow (typesetting), a final line of a paragraph appearing separately at the top of a page or column
- Widow (EP), an EP by Darke Complex
- The Widow (1939 film)
- The Widow (1955 film)
- The Widow (play), a 17th-century play
- "The Widow" (song), a 2005 song by The Mars Volta
- Widows (film), a 2011 Argentine film
- Widows (TV series), a British television drama
- Widows (play), a theatre play by Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner
- Whydah Gally, a recovered pirate galleon
Usage examples of "widow".
I had likewise occasion to become acquainted at the Venetian Embassy with a lady from Venice, the widow of an English baronet named Wynne.
He was brought to justice, and sentenced to death, and his property was adjudged to his widow, who shortly after married the page who had saved her life.
Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.
And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
Madame Marion, widow of a former receiver-general of the department of the Aube, presented a singular appearance.
One was a widow who had said bawdily that she was longing to feel a good man between her legs again.
Those were always remarkably alike, every one seeming to be owned by a widow lady of formidable dimensions and creaking corsets, commanding a staff that consisted of her numerous beefy daughters.
I soon made myself at home with her, and found out, when she began to talk, that she was neither a widow nor the niece of the Pope.
The bluffy individual, doubtless a Republican who had pocketed his many thousands, spoke of the widows of the land, made so by the war.
And all that time the noblemen and noblewomen sat here comfortably, sipping their wine and boggle, worrying more about fine clothes than a poor old widow who was about to be executed by the terrible powries in Caer Tinella, fighting with their quiet insults whispered behind backs rather than with sword and honest wit.
Le Duc had scarcely gone an hour when a messenger on foot came to bring me a second letter from the widow.
Hanoverian lady, a widow and the mother of five daughters, came to England two months ago with her whole family.
Grace called 911, administered all the first aid revival techniques she knew, and then had the painful duty of driving out to the farm to tell Cig that she was a widow.
Moreover, it turned out a very fortunate thing for my mother that she had studied for the stage, for nine years later, having been left a widow with six children, she could not have brought them up if it had not been for the resources she found in that profession.
My encounter with the impudent widow had so affected me that I could not resist going at an early hour on the following day to communicate it to M.