Word Finder - widow

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A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.

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A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).

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(in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.

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An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

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A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.

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A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.

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To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.

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To strip of anything valued.

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To endow with a widow's right.

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To be widow to.

Ranulf married Constance, widow of Henry II.

His young widow took command of the survivors and brought them safely to Manila.

Leaving a young widow.

I can't see her as the grieving widow.

We could cremate him and spread a few ashes around so the widow has a place to mourn.

On the death of her husband a widow must receive her rightful inheritance, without delay or hindrance.

In truth, destiny is like the web of a black widow.

Courting a widow was one thing, but harboring a nagging feeling she might not be widowed was quite another matter.

His widow left a sum of Ioo,000 francs to the Institut de France, to found in his memory scholarships in political economy or law.

She's a little fussy, you know, and afraid of growing old, being a widow and still in her prime.

It was here Dean was finally able to tell his wife about meeting Paul Senior's widow and his offer to show her the high country property in litigation.

She's hardly a widow.

During the Burgundian period it was the residence of Margaret of York, widow of Charles the Bold; and the pretender Perkin Warbeck, whom she championed, if not born there, was the reputed son of a Jew of Tournai.

As a widow, the wife took her husband's place in the family, living on in his house and bringing up the children.

Tradition says he was ensnared and poisoned by Stephania, the widow of Crescentius.

I was sure you'd whack the son of a bitch and maybe kill him and I didn't want to be a jailhouse widow and run Bird Song alone.

Fred emerged long enough to pass on breakfast, a sure sign the widow Worthington had fed him, and he was off to do his morning research.

It was beginning to look more as if Jeffrey Byrne pulled a stupid stunt after a few too many drinks in a lonely motel, leaving a widow and a teenaged son to fend for themselves.

Dean didn't go into any detail explaining why he had not gone to the Norfolk Police Station the prior evening—he just mumbled that he had a very distraught widow on his hands.

His predecessor in the kingdom, Lothar, had left a young and beautiful widow, Adelheid.

The widow and mother of the deceased prince claimed the whole of this treasure under the terms of a will which was never produced.

Beaufort, widow of James I., chose it for her residence, and in.

He left the army in 1887, married Sibell Mary, daughter of the gth Earl of Scarbrough, widow of Earl Grosvenor, mother of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, and became private secretary to Mr. Balfour, at the time Irish Secretary, a position which he held till 1892.

There he was joined by two wealthy Roman ladies, Paula, a widow, and Eustochium, her daughter, one of Jerome's Hebrew students.

Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Edward IV., was imprisoned in the convent of Bermondsey; and the real earl of Warwick was taken from the Tower and shown in public in the streets of London.

A Biographical Memorial, by his widow, was published in 1904.

Among the student publications are The Cornell Era (1868, weekly), The Cornell Daily Sun (1880), The Sibley Journal of Engineering (1882), The Cornell Magazine, a literary monthly, and The Cornell Widow (1892), a comic tri-weekly.

William Parker died about 1516, and his widow married a certain John Baker.

The north of Portugal was to go to the widow of the king of Etruria (a Spanish Infanta); her realm now passing into the hands of Napoleon.

In the 1 4 th and 5th centuries it was under the government of the Ordelaffi; and in 1500 was taken by Caesar Borgia, despite a determined resistance by Caterina Sforza, widow of Girolamo Riario.

A coolness with Calvin was created by Farel's marriage, at the age of sixty-nine, with a refugee widow from Rouen, of unsuitable age.

Accordingly when Gian Galeazzo's widow applied to the republic for help against Carrara it was readily granted, and, after some years of fighting, the possessions of the Carraresi, Padua, Treviso, Bassano, commanding the Val Sugana route, as well as Vicenza and Verona, passed definitely under Venetian rule.

The property rights of husband and wife are nearly equal; a wife may hold her property the same as if single, and a widower or a widow is entitled to the use for life of one-third of the real estate of which his or her deceased consort was seized at the time of his or her death.

He married in 1803 Eleanora, daughter of William Shairp, consulgeneral for Russia, and widow of Thomas Yeldham of St Petersburg.

His first wife, Ersilia Santa Croce, bore him twelve children, and nine years after her death he married Lucrezia Petroni, a widow with three daughters, by whom he had no offspring.

He created for himself a great and united principality, comprising not only Mosul, but also Aleppo,3 Harran, Nisibin and other districts; and in 1130, Alice, the widow of Bohemund II., sought his alliance in order to maintain herself in power at Antioch.

By the assizes of the high court, the widow, on the death of her husband, took half of the estate for herself, and half in guardianship for her children.

In 1489 it was acquired by Venice, which claimed the island on the death of the last king, having adopted his widow (a Venetian lady named Catarina Cornaro) as a daughter of the republic. On the history of Cyprus, see Stubbs, Lectures on Medieval and Modern History, 156-208.

His widow maintained Valencia for three years longer against the Moors, but was at last compelled to evacuate the city, taking with her the body of the Cid to be buried in the monastery of San Pedro at Cardena, in the neighbourhood of Burgos.

In Jerusalem he saw Theodora, the beautiful widow of the late king Baldwin and niece of the emperor Manuel.

Hauterive was enriched for a time by his marriage with a widow, Madame de Marchais, but was ruined by the Revolution.

His wife was the widow of Colonel Benjamin Rolfe, and the daughter of Timothy Walker, "a highly respectable minister, and one of the first settlers at Rumford," now called Concord, in New Hampshire.

Until 1804 he lived at the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street, London, or at a house which he rented at Brompton, and he then established himself in Paris, marrying (his first wife having died in 1792) as his second wife the wealthy widow of Lavoisier, the celebrated chemist.

He must have lost a considerable amount of money in the execution of his work, and in 1723 some remuneration was made to his widow by the government.

A son of John Bethune of Auchmuty and a nephew of Cardinal Beaton, James was a trusted adviser of the Scottish regent, Mary of Lorraine, widow of James V., and a determined foe of the reformers.

In 1751 Wesley married Mary Vazeille, a widow, but the union was unfortunate and she finally left him.

Sardar Singh had no son, and on his death in 1872 his widow and principal ministers selected Dungar Singh as his successor, with the approval of the British government.

The death of Louis in 1392, the regency of his widow Elizabeth, and a fresh outbreak in Croatia, enabled Tvrtko to fulfil his predecessor's designs by establishing a maritime state.

In 1829 his widow published his drawings of the royal tombs at Thebes.

In 1275, two years after the death of his first wife, Aveline de Fortibus, Edmund married Blanche of Artois, the widow of Henry III.