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81widow — noun (C) 1 a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again: Mr Castle s widow, Anne, described the sentence as obscene . 2 football widow/golf etc widow humorous a woman whose husband spends all his free time watching football,… …
82widow */*/ — UK [ˈwɪdəʊ] / US [ˈwɪdoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms widow : singular widow plural widows a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again • See: black widow …
83widow — wid•ow [[t]ˈwɪd oʊ[/t]] n. 1) ant a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried 2) gam (in cards) an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table 3) pri a) a short last line of a paragraph, esp. one less than… …
84widow — A woman of single status because of the death of her husband. A woman who survives the man to whom she was married at the time of his death. Meeker v Draffen, 201 NY 205, 94 NE 626. A woman whose husband has died and who has not married again. Re …
85widow — [OE] A widow is etymologically a woman who has been ‘separated’, left ‘solitary’. The word goes back ultimately to Indo European *widhewo, an adjective formed from the base *weidh ‘separate’ (source also of English divide and Sanskrit vidhu… …
86widow's peak — noun a V shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead • Hypernyms: ↑point, ↑tip, ↑peak • Part Holonyms: ↑hairline * * * ˌwidow s ˈpeak 7 [widow s peak widow s peaks] …
87widow bewitched — noun chiefly dialect : a woman separated from her husband : grass widow 2 * * * widow bewitched, Informal. a grass widow …
88widow bird — Whidah bird Whid ah bird , (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also {vida finch},… …
89widow finch — Whidah bird Whid ah bird , (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also {vida finch},… …
90Widow's man — A Widows Man is a fictitious seaman kept on the books of British ships in the Georgian era for accounting purposes. The wages of these men were paid to the widows of seamen who were killed, as such widows were often left destitute by the death of …
