Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.
Shak.
Wid"ow bird` (?). (Zoöl.) See Whidan bird.
Wid"ow*er (?), n. A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not
married again. Shak.
Wid"ow*er*hood (?), n. The state of being a widower.
Wid"ow*hood (?), n. 1. 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.
2. Estate settled on a widow. [Obs.] "I 'll assure her of her widowhood
. . . in all my lands." Shak.
Wid"ow-hunt`er (?), n. One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with
a fortune. Addison.
Wid"ow*ly, a. Becoming or like a widow.
Wid"ow-mak`er (?), n. One who makes widows by destroying husbands. [R.]
Shak.
Wid"ow-wail` (?), n. (Bot.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub
(Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.
Width (?), n. [From Wide.] The quality of being wide; extent from side
to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a
door.
Wid"u*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual. [Obs.] Bale.
Wid"we (?), n. A widow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Wield (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wielded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wielding.] [OE.
welden to govern, to have power over, to possess, AS. geweldan,
gewyldan, from wealdan; akin to OS. waldan, OFries. walda, G. walten,
OHG. waltan, Icel. valda, Sw. vålla to occasion, to cause, Dan. volde,
Goth. waldan to govern, rule, L. valere to be strong. Cf. Herald,
Valiant.]
1. To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
[Obs.]
When a strong armed man keepeth his house, all things that he wieldeth
ben in peace.
Wyclif (Luke xi. 21).
Wile [ne will] ye wield gold neither silver ne money in your girdles.