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Wide`-a*wake" (wd`*wk"), a. Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence,
knowing; keen; alert. Dickens.
Wide`-a*wake", n. A broad-brimmed, low- crowned felt hat.
Wide"gap` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The angler; — called also widegab, and
widegut.
Wide"ly, adv. 1. In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far;
extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.
2. Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in
opinion.
Wid"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Widening.]
To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of;
as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
Wid"en, v. i. To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.
Arches widen, and long aisles extend.
Pope.
Wide"ness (?), n. 1. The quality or state of being wide; breadth;
width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I
landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift.
2. Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the
wideness of the sea or ocean.
Wide"spread` (?), a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended;
extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.
Wide"where` (?), adv. [See Wide, and Where.] Widely; far and wide.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Widg"eon (?), n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon,
vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, -onis, a kind of
small crane.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks,
especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas.
The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon
(A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called
also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat,
duck, and whitebelly.
Bald-faced, or Green-headed, widgeon, the American widgeon. — Black
widgeon, the European tufted duck. — Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall. (b)
The pintail duck. — Great headed widgeon, the poachard. — Pied widgeon.
(a) The poachard. (b) The goosander. — Saw-billed widgeon, the
merganser. — Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary. — Spear widgeon, the
goosander. [Prov. Eng.] — Spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler. — White
widgeon, the smew. — Wood widgeon, the wood duck.
Wid"ish (?), a. Moderately wide. Tyndall.
Wid"man*stät`ten fig"ures (?). (Min.) Certain figures appearing on
etched meteoric iron; — so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna,
who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under
Meteorite.
Wid"ow (?), n. [OE. widewe, widwe, AS. weoduwe, widuwe, wuduwe; akin to
OFries. widwe, OS. widowa, D. weduwe, G. wittwe, witwe, OHG. wituwa,
witawa, Goth. widuw&?;, Russ. udova, OIr. fedb, W. gweddw, L. vidua,
Skr. vidhav; and probably to Skr. vidh to be empty, to lack; cf. Gr.
&?; a bachelor. &?;&?;&?;&?;. Cf. Vidual.] A woman who has lost her
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
(Callithrix lugens); — so called on account of its color, which is
black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure
white around the face. — Widow's chamber (Eng. Law), in London, the
apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to
which she was formerly entitled.
Wid"ow, a. Widowed. "A widow woman." 1 Kings xvii. 9. "This widow
lady." Shak.