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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Dow

/dou/ · IPA /daʊ/
01 n. A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
  1. 1.
    A kind of vessel. See Dhow. See: Dhow
02 v. t. To furnish with a dower; to endow.
  1. 1.
    To furnish with a dower; to endow.[Obs.]
03 prop. n. shortened form of the Dow-Jones Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average; as, the Dow rose 100 points today.
  1. 1.
    shortened form of the Dow-Jones Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average; as, the Dow rose 100 points today.(Finance) See: the Dow-Jones Index