Usually means: Payment from bride's family traditionally.
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  5. Dowery, dowery: Dictionary.com
  6. Dowery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. dowery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. dowery: Rhymezone
  9. Dowery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. dowery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. dowery: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. DOWERY, DOWERY, DOWERY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dowery)

noun:  Alternative form of dowry [Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.]

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