widowhood, widowhed, widewehode, wydowhead

[Eng. widow (1), s.; -hood.] 1. The state of a woman who has lost her husband by death and remains unmarried; the state or condition of a widow; the time during which a widow remains unmarried. "God, that helped her in her widowhood." Tennyson: Dora, 111. *2. Estate settled on a widow. "For that dowry, I'll a ure her of Her widowhood , be it that she survives me, In all my lands." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, ii. wid'-ōw-lý, adj . [English widow ; -ly .] Like a extent from side to side; breadth, width. "Wheras the roches ce ed, there begaune a dike of a wounderful deapth and wydene e." - Brende: Quintius Curtius, fo. 237. 2. Large or wide extent in every direction; as, the widene of the ocean. 3. Greatne , extent; as, the widene of difference between two things. widg'-eon, s. [WIGEON.] wid-ow (1), *wed-ew, *wid-dow, *wid-ewe, *wid-iwe,*wid-we, *wyd-ewe, *wyd-do we, s . [A. S. widwe , weoduwe , wud we , wudu we , wydewe ; cogn. with Dut. weduwe ; O. H. Ger. wituwa , witewa , wit iwa ; Ger. wittwe : Goth. widuwo , widowo ; Latin vidua , fem. of viduus deprived of, bereft (whence Eng. void ); Ital. vedova ; Sp. viuda ; Fr. veuve ; Welsh gweddw ; Ru . vdova ; Sansc. vidhavá .] A woman who has lost her husband by death, and also remains unmarried. "There came a certain poor widow , and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing."- Mark xii. 42. IMG:content-0892.png:[blocks in formation] Botany : (1) The genus Cneorum, and specially Cneorum tri coccos ; † (2) Frit till aria meleagris . *widow's chamber, s . The apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a London freeman, to which she was formerly entitled.