widow

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
• noun Informal A woman whose spouse is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.
• noun An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
• noun A single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column.
• noun A short line of type at the bottom of a page, column, or paragraph.
• transitive verb To make a widow or widower of.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A whidah-bird.
• To reduce to the condition of a widow; bereave of a husband or mate: commonly in the past participle.
• To endow with a widow's right.
• Figuratively, to deprive of anything regarded as analogous to a husband; bereave: sometimes with of.
• To survive as the widow of; be widow to.
• noun A woman who has lost her husband by death, In the early church, widows formed a separate class or order, whose duties were devotion and the care of the orphans, the sick, and prisoners.
• noun A European geometrid moth, Cidaria luctuata, more fully called mourning widow: an English collectors' name.
• noun In some cardgames, an additional hand dealt to the table, sometimes face up, sometimes not.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
• noun (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.
• noun See under Grass.
• noun [Colloq.] a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow.
• noun (Zoöl.) the macavahu.
• noun (Zoöl.) 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.
• noun (Eng. Law) in London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled.
• adjective Widowed.
• transitive verb To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
• transitive verb To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
• transitive verb rare To endow with a widow's right.
• transitive verb obsolete To become, or survive as, the widow of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A woman whose husband has died (and has not re-married); feminine of widower.
• noun informal, in combination A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
• noun An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
• noun printing A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
• noun type of venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus
• verb transitive To make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
• verb cause to be without a spouse