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Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Marriageability
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• Widow-hunter
  One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.
• Womanlike
  Like a woman; womanly.
• Marriageable
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable.
• Womanliness
  The quality or state of being womanly.
• Appliable
  Applicable; also, compliant.
• Bondslave
  A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
• Widow-maker
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
• Appliance
  The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
• Bondsmen
  of Bondsman
• Widow-wail
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.
• BONDSERVANT
  A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.
• Applicability
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• Bondsman
  A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

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