Endow
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits. To bestow freely. To be furnished with something naturally.
Dower
Part of speech: noun
Definition: that part of a deceased's property provided to his widowproperty given by a woman to her husband at marriage, a dowry.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to give a dower or dowryto endow