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That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. Shak.

Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. Shak.

See Dower.

Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

Having a gloomy look.

To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.

Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from…

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A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]