dower
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Is dower a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.Antonyms: curtesy
2. (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriageExamples: "[…] how features are abroad, / I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty,— / The jewel in my dower,—I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you […]"; "In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece."Synonyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower, dowryAntonyms: dowry
3. (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.Examples: "How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!"; "Man in his primeval dower arrayed."; "For though God had bestowed on her the rare dower of a fine mind, He had not added to it the much more common, though infinitely less precious gift, of a quick intellect."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.Examples: "He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth."transitive
2. (transitive) To endow.Examples: "It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary