▪ I. drowrie, -ry
var. druery, Obs.
▪ II. drowrie, -ry, drowrier
obs. Sc. ff. dowry, dowrier. [These forms seem to have arisen from a confusion of dowery, dowry, with drowrie, Sc. form of druery (sense 2). See also drowarie.]
| 1503 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) 240 (Jam.) The qwenis drowry and morwyn-gift. 1513 [see dowry 2]. 1551 Aberdeen Reg. V. 21 (Jam.) Quene drowrier. a 1835 Motherwell in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. ii. 13 The fisch are the deer that fill my parks, And the water waste my drurie. |