dower
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- Homophones: dour
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dower (plural dowers)
- (law) that part of a deceased's property provided to his widow
- (law) property given by a woman to her husband at marriage, a dowry.
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part of deceased's property
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dowry — see dowry
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to dower (third-person singular simple present dowers, present participle dowering, simple past and past participle dowered)