Definition of "dowers" [dowers]

• Plural form of dower. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dower. (verb)

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• "In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece."
• "  And such she was; her daughters had their dowers"
• "If one [667] die, the other party shall not marry till six months after; and because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, [668] none shall be given at all, or very little, and that by supervisors rated, they that are foul shall have a greater portion; if fair, none at all, or very little:"