Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.
Furnish with an endowment.
1 With the exception of certain dower rights the whole vests in yourself.
2 That her dower was anywhere near three thousand dollars was exceedingly doubtful.
3 A wife who remarried or bore a child lost her dower land.
4 When we have succeeded, we will give his daughter a handsome dower .
5 There was, however, no lack of candidates for Mary's hand and dower .
6 Don't trifle with love, girl, it's God Almighty's dower to a woman.
7 In times past Bridge House was a dower house of the Ormonde family.
8 It is about that I wish to speak to you-asto the dower .
9 More important still were the woman's dower and her personal fortune.
10 This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower .
11 The dower that I should bring you would be sickness, gloom, and poverty.
12 I only wish that I had a dower to bring you.
13 Her claim was clear enough-theright of dower , a third of his estate.
14 Thus her sole dower was her pretty face and her cunning.
15 Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower .
16 This was how she and Caroline had landed at the dower - house of Pretzsch.
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