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Splendid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.

A bull Sir W. Scott.

A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [India]

The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. J. S. Mill.

Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Turgid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.

A dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in Teneriffe; -- called also Teneriffe.

r 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 South American monkey (Call…

See Whidan bird.

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.

One who makes widows by destroying husbands. [R.] Shak.

A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.

The state of being a widower.

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.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.