cowan (plural cowans or cowanis)
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
(freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
(slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
cowan (plural cowans)
(Scottish, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
Cowan
A Scottish surname; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
An Irish surname; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
A Jewish surname a variant of Cohen.
A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric aus-yuk word meaning “big water”.
A town in Manitoba.
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
Source: Wiktionary
Cow"an (kou"an), n. Etym: [Cf. OF. couillon a coward, a cullion.]
Definition: One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]
Note: Among Freemasons, it is a cant term for pretender, interloper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 December 2024
(verb) attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; “civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country’s surrender”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
