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dow en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Etymology From Middle English douen, from Old English dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.
Meanings
(Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete) To be worth.
(Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete) To thrive, prosper.
Forms
Deriveds
dowsome · dowless
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dow en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Etymology From Middle English dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.
Meanings
To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Forms
Deriveds
dowable
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dow en · NOUN · etymology 3
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Meanings
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).
Forms
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dow en · NOUN · etymology 4
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Meanings
(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of dove (“pigeon”).
The fauconer then was prest,
Came runnynge with a dow,
And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
But she [his hawk] wold not bow. c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 71–74:
Forms
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dow en · NOUN · etymology 5
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Meanings
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).
Forms
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dow en · NOUN · etymology 6
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Meanings
(alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete form of dough
This day my Julia thou must make
For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
Knead but the Dow, and it will be
To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice. 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:
Forms
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dow en · NOUN · etymology 7
Pronunciation
(Southern-England) audio /daʊ/ Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of day of the week
Forms
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