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The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

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

Widowhood. [R.] "Chaste viduity." Ld. Ellenborough.

f the family Viperidæ. (b) A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles the viper in color.

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. "Idol, void and vain." Pope.

Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare. This [gold] is it That makes the wappen'd widow wed again.

The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake.

A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

Heb. x. 23. In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. Milton.

e wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds. In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. Milton.

er an open space. Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework). -- Wheel tree (Bot.), a tree (Aspidosperma excelsum) of Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a coarsely made wheel. See Paddlewood. -- Wheel urchin (Zoöl.), any sea urchin of the genus Rotula hav…

drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.

White sucker. (Zoöl.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). -- White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- appli…

The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.

Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual. [Obs.] Bale.

A widow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

öl.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly (Cecidomyia strobiloides). -- Willow grouse (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. See ptarmigan. -- Willow lark (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Willow ptarmigan (Zoöl.) (a) The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting. See…

l seemly her wympel ipinched is. Chaucer. For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away. Spenser. Then Vivian rose, And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws. M. Arnold.