(wid'ō) [Old English, widewe, wuduwe]
[n.] 1. A woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried.
2. In some card games, an additional hand dealt to the table; also a kitty
3. Printing An incomplete line of type ending a paragraph; especially, a single line or less at
the top of page or column
[v.] 1. To make a widow of; deprive of a husband: usually in the past participle: a woman widowed by war.
2. To deprive of something desirable; bereave
3. Rare To survive as the widow of
4. Rare To recognize as a widow; give the rights of a widow to
WIDOW in the Bible
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.~James 1:27 (NIV)
