Usually means: Legal right of a widow.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dower: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dower: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dower, dower: Wordnik
  7. Dower, dower: Wiktionary
  8. dower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dower: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dower: Dictionary.com
  12. dower: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Dower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dower: Rhymezone
  17. Dower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dower: Free Dictionary
  20. dower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dower: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. dower: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dower: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Dower: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Dower: Investopedia
  11. dower: Legal dictionary
  12. dower: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  14. Dower: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dower: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOWER, DOWER, DOWER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. dower: Genealogy Glossary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dower: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dower: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dowered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dower)

noun:  (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
noun:  (law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
noun:  (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb:  (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
verb:  (transitive) To endow.
noun:  A surname.

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