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ith 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.

To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.

The state of being a widower.

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.

ersons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. Cooley.

A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.

A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

To furnish with a dower; to endow. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

Of or relating to a dower. [R.]

A woman entitled to dower. Bouvier.