Word Meanings - WIDOW-HUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.

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• MARRY
  1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• SEEKER
  One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar. (more info)
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• COURTSHIP
  1. The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor. Swift. 2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to
• SEEK-NO-FURTHER
  A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.
• FORTUNE
  chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success,
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• UNMARRY
  To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.
• SELF-SEEKER
  One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• INTERMARRY
  To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• REMARRY
  To marry again.
• MISSEEK
  To seek for wrongly.
• MISFORTUNE
  Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster.
• DISCOURTSHIP
  Want of courtesy. B. Jonson.
• COMET-FINDER; COMET-SEEKER
  A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.
• BESEEK
  To beseech. Chaucer.