To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
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A favor or benefit.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
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That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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See Dower.
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See Dower.
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A gift; endowment.
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A gift; endowment.
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That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…
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To invest.
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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
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To put on, as clothes; to draw on.
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To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
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