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▪ 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. 1...
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druery
† druery, drury Obs. Forms: α. 3–4 druery, -rie, driwerie, drywery, -orie, 4 drew-, drou-, druwery(e; β. 3–5 drury, -ri, 4 dreury, drwry(e, 4–5 drurie, -rye, drewri(e, -ry, drowry, 5 droury, drewre, 6 Sc. drou-, drowrie, (9 Sc. drurie). [a. OF. druerie, droerie, druirie love, friendship (= It. drude...
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love-drury
† love-drury Obs. [f. love n.1 + druery. Cf. love-amour, love n.1 16.] a. Love, love-making, courtship: = druery 1. b. A love-token or keepsake: = druery 2.a. c 1300 Havelok 195 Til þat she were tuelf winter hold, And of speche were bold; And þat she couþe of courteysye, Gon, and speken of luue-drur...
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