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The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen.

Becoming or like a widow.

aterial, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. Milton.

Having windows or openings. [R.] "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.

Destitute of a window. Carlyle.

See Pane, n., (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane.]

Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [R.] Donne.

, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS.…

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

Abjectly; downcastly.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

hat some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

ddison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

e most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.