dower

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English dower, equivalent to dough + -er

1. Alternative spelling of dougher.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English dower, dowere, from Old French doeire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dowry.

1. To give a dower or dowry to.

   “He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.”

2. To endow.

   “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.”