slovodefinícia
widow
(mass)
widow
- vdova, vdova, ovdovieť
widow
(encz)
widow,ovdovět Zdeněk Brož
widow
(encz)
widow,vdova n:
Widow
(gcide)
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.
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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 (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.
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Widow
(gcide)
Widow \Wid"ow\, a.
Widowed. "A widow woman." --1 Kings xvii. 9. "This widow
lady." --Shak.
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Widow
(gcide)
Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Widowing.]
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1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a
husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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Though in thus city he
Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak.
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2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything
beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to
bereave.
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The widowed isle, in mourning,
Dries up her tears. --Dryden.
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Tress of their shriveled fruits
Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J.
Philips.
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Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.
--Heber.
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3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak.
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4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
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Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and
widow
them all. --Shak.
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widow
(wn)
widow
n 1: a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not
remarried [syn: widow, widow woman]
v 1: cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women
in the former Yugoslavia"
widow
(devil)
WIDOW, n. 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.
WIDOW
(bouvier)
WIDOW. An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.
2. In legal writings, widow is an addition given to a woman who is
unmarried and whose husband is dead. The addition of spinster is given to a
woman who never was married. Lovel. on Wills, 269. See Addition. As to the
rights of a widow, seq Dower.

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(encz)
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