English words for 'Lacking a portion; especially, without a dowry.'
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- (figuratively) Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- (numismatics, banking) Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, by means of rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
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- Lacking, without, scant.
- Not, opposite.
- Furthest in position
- (biochemistry) An apoenzyme: an enzyme without its cofactor; associated apoproteins.
- Different, distinct.
- (organic chemisty) Derived from, or related to.
- Away from, outward, or apart in direction.
- Distant, far from, or apart in position.
- Exterior, outside of.
- To carry forth, to do.
- (astronomy) Apoapsis: the point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
- From, coming from.
- Disjoint, separate.
- Removal, amputation.
- (biochemistry) Lacking a metallic unit.
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- having little money or few possessions
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- lacking in quality or substances
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Of low quality.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
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- A wife's fortune; a dowry.
- The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
- That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
- An allocated amount.
- One's fate; lot.
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
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- (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
- Alternative spelling of dougher.
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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- A wife's fortune; a dowry.
- The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
- That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
- An allocated amount.
- One's fate; lot.
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
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- (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
- Alternative spelling of dougher.
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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adj
- (figuratively) Lacking even the smallest amount of money.
- (numismatics, banking) Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, by means of rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
adj
- having little money or few possessions
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- lacking in quality or substances
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Of low quality.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.