Wail |
To choose; to select. |
v. t. |
Wail |
To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death. |
v. t. |
Wail |
To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. |
v. i. |
Wail |
Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. |
n. |
Widow |
A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. |
n. |
Widow |
Widowed. |
a. |
Widow |
To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. |
v. t. |
Widow |
To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. |
v. t. |
Widow |
To endow with a widow's right. |
v. t. |
Widow |
To become, or survive as, the widow of. |
v. t. |
Widow bird |
See Whidan bird. |
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Widow-hunter |
One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. |
n. |
Widow-maker |
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. |
n. |
Chuck-Will's-widow |
A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note. |
n. |