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.
• (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
  "[…] 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 […]"
• (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  "How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!"

verb

• (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
  "He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth."
• (transitive) To endow.
  "It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."