WIDOW, n. L. See Wide. A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2 .
Widows chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.
WIDOW,
1. To bereave of a husband but rarely used except in the participle.
2. To endow with a widows right. Unusual.
3. To strip of any thing good.
The widowd isle in mourning--
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