widow
widow
(wĭdʹō) noun
1.
Abbr. wid. A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
2. Informal. A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.
3. Games. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called kitty1.
4. Printing. a. A single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column. b. A short line at the bottom of a page, column, or paragraph.
verb
, transitive
widowed
, widowing, widows
To make a widow or widower of.
[Middle English widewe, from Old English widuwe.]