different between dower vs hower

English

Etymology

From Middle English dower, dowere, from Old French doeire, from Medieval Latin d?t?rium, from Latin d?s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dau?-?r, IPA^(key): /?da?.??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [?da?.?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?da?.?]
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
• Homophone: dour (for some speakers)

Noun

dower (plural dowers)

1. (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
2. (law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1

     […] how features are abroad, / I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty,— / The jewel in my dower,—I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you […]
3. (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
   • c. 1600, John Davies, The Dignity of Man

     How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!

   • 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches

     Man in his primeval dower arrayed.

Antonyms

• curtesy

Related terms

Translations

See also

• bride price
• dower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dower (third-person singular simple present dowers, present participle dowering, simple past and past participle dowered)

1. To give a dower or dowry.
2. To endow.

Anagrams

• e-word, rowed, worde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dowere, douweer, dowaire, dowaire, dowayr, douere

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French doeire, from Medieval Latin d?t?rium; equivalent to dowen +? -er. Doublet of dowarye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du????r(?)/, /?du??r(?)/

Noun

dower (plural dowers)

1. A dower; a life estate of a male spouse's property.
2. (rare) A gift given by the bride's family to the groom or his relatives; dowry.
3. (rare, figuratively) A intrinsic or inherent property or attribute.
4. (rare, astrology) A portion of the world under the domination of a particular star sign.

Descendants

• English: dower
• Scots: dower

References

• “d?u??r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.

English

Noun

hower (plural howers)

1. Obsolete spelling of hour
   • 1880-1881: Clements R Markham (editor), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

     [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.

Anagrams

• how're, who're, whore