dow

present singular third person dows · participle present dowing · participle past dowed · past dowed · participle past dought · past dought

1. Northern EnglanddialectalobsoleteTo be worth.
2. Northern EnglanddialectalobsoleteTo thrive, prosper.

present singular third person dows · participle present dowing · participle past dowed · past dowed

1. To furnish with a dower; to endow.

plural dows

1. alternativeAlternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).

plural dows

1. obsoleteObsolete 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

plural dows

1. alternativeAlternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).

plural dows

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete 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

plural dows

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of day of the week

plural Dows

1. countableA male given name.
2. countableA surname transferred from the given name.
3. countableuncountablebusinessDow Jones average
4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jersey County, Illinois, United States.
5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

alternative DoW · alternative D.O.W. · alternative D. O. W.

1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of United States Department of War.

   Synonyms: USDOD, DOD

plural DOWs · alternative DoW · alternative D.O.W. · alternative D. O. W.

1. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of department of war.

   Synonyms: DOD, MOD, MOW

1. alternativeAlternative form of DOW.