cowan

plural cowans · obsolete plural cowanis · alternative kowan · alternative cowen

1. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
2. FreemasonryA person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
3. slangA sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
4. attributiveUninitiated, outside, “profane”.

plural cowans

1. ScotlandobsoleterareA fishing-boat.

alternative Cowans · alternative Cowin · alternative Cowing

1. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
2. A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
3. A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
4. An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
5. A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
6. A place in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
   4. A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.