Noah Webster
Widow
WIDOW, noun [Latin See Wide.] A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2:37.
WIDOWs chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.
WIDOW, verb transitive
1. To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.
2. To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]
3. To strip of any thing good.
The widowd isle in mourning--