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cowan
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Etymology 2 alt. 1 A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship. 2 (context freemasonry English) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees. ...
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Population (2000): 1770 Housing Units (2000): 803 Land area (2000): 1.976428 sq. miles (5.118926 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.976428 sq. miles (5.118926 sq. km) FIPS code: 17700 Located within: Tennessee ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowan \Cow"an\ (kou"an), n. [Cf. OF. couillon a coward, a cullion.] One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.] Note: Among Freemasons, it is a cant term for pretender, interloper.
Usage examples of cowan.
Not twenty feet away, on the edge of the jetty was a man sworn to kill Cowan on sight.
As their footsteps receded down the jetty, Steve Cowan got to his feet.
Army Intelligence was secret and, because of strict orders, Cowan did not dare tell him.
He rolled over, and tipping his head back, Cowan looked around the cabin of the plane.
Moving with the slight swell of the water under the craft, Steve Cowan shifted until the ropes lay across the seam, and then, very slowly, he began to saw up and down.
Then, somehow, Cowan discovered he was free and began desperately to swim for shore with powerful strokes.
Yet despite these things, never before had Cowan seen a woman look so regal, so beautiful, so commanding.
He gestured at the body of a man which Cowan noticed, for the first time, lying in the shadows, near the wall.
Steve Cowan detected the resolution draining from her voice, and he saw how her eyes widened with horror.
In the same instant that Isola moved, Steve Cowan had plunged through the door.
Springing across the fallen chair, Cowan leaped to close quarters with the other man.
Yet moving through the blackness under the trees, Steve Cowan knew it would be a help rather than otherwise.
The guard, warned by some sixth sense, turned, and Cowan struck like a panther.
A man had come into the window by means of the vines, and Cowan recognized him at once.
When Cowan tried a flying tackle, Yosha met it with a smashing knee that knocked him rolling to the floor.