widow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
2. n. Informal A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.
3. n. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called kitty¹.
4. n. Printing A single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column.
5. n. Printing A short line at the bottom of a page, column, or paragraph.
6. v. To make a widow or widower of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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.
2. n. A European geometrid moth, Cidaria luctuata, more fully called mourning widow: an English collectors' name.
3. n. In some cardgames, an additional hand dealt to the table, sometimes face up, sometimes not.
4. To reduce to the condition of a widow; bereave of a husband or mate: commonly in the past participle.
5. To endow with a widow's right.
6. Figuratively, to deprive of anything regarded as analogous to a husband; bereave: sometimes with of.
7. To survive as the widow of; be widow to.
8. n. A whidah-bird.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
2. n. (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.
3. adj. Widowed.
4. v. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
5. v. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
6. v. rare To endow with a widow's right.
7. v. obsolete To become, or survive as, the widow of.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
2. v. cause to be without a spouse