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The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

mployed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like. Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads. -- Mourning dove (Z…

A greave or legging.

Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]

The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. Bouvier.

right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. "'Reave the orphan of his patrimony." Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Reave. Spenser.

imp. of Reave. Chaucer.

See Reaver. Ruskin.

To reave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. [Obs.]

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array.…

To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak.

The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement. [R.]

A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." Chaucer. Grass widow. See under Grass. -- Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.] Widow-in-mourning (Zoöl.), the macavahu. -- Widow monkey (Zoöl.), a small Sout…