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Gowan

gaʊən
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Gowan
    (Min) Decomposed granite.
  2. Gowan
    The daisy, or mountain daisy. "And pu'd the gowans fine."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) gowan
    In Scotland, one of several different yellow flowers, as the dandelion, the common marigold, the hawkweed, the globe-flower, etc., but generally the daisy, Bellis perennis. Also gowlan.
  2. (n) gowan
    The dandelion.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Gowan
    gow′an (Scot.) the wild daisy.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Scot., fr. Gael. gugan, bud, flower, daisy

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Ir. and Gael. gugan, bud, daisy.

Usage in the news

Christin Gowan , an East Union High graduate who went on to a stellar four-year playing career at CSU Stanislaus, has been hired as the Warriors&#x92. modbee.com

Tami Gowan and Daniel Evavold were married Nov 26, 2010, in an evening ceremony at St Mary's Catholic Church in Grand Forks, N.D. fergusfallsjournal.com

House Republicans retain Tobin as speaker, choose Gowan and Gray for leadership posts. azcapitoltimes.com

Justice insecticide from Gowan Co. And Nisso America is a dual mode of action premix containing acetamiprid and bifenthrin. croplife.com

Mary Gowans leaves University Avenue court with her lawyer Peter Brauti after being acquitted on all charges involving a male student. thestar.com

Police said when they interviewed Gowans about the baby's injury, he told them he slapped her hand and then pulled it away from her mouth in an attempt to break her of her habit of sucking her thumb. pbf.com

Hinds County Judge Bill Gowan will hear the motion on Dec 18. chron.com

The child was found in a hot tub at a home near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Gowan Road. ktnv.com

A Las Vegas police officer Tuesday stops a motorist in the Kahre Elementary School zone, near Gowan and Cimarron roads, during a back-to-school safety awareness event. lvrj.com

Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce CEO Dave Gowan presents the Spinning Plates award to Jessie Woods of the Gold Exchange Thursday evening in recognition of her involvement in so many community projects at the same time. redbluffdailynews.com

Before Styx keyboardist/vocalist Lawrence Gowan joined the popular rock band in 1999, he had enjoyed great success in his Canadian homeland. mauinews.com

James Young and Lawrence Gowan of STYX are performing at SEMO district fair. semissourian.com

Gowan Forms US Subsidiary . croplife.com

LLC has formed a wholly-owned subsidiary , Gowan USA, LLC. croplife.com

Usage in literature

Gowan, Anthony T., D.D. "Elements of Agricultural Chemistry" by Thomas Anderson

It's bonny; but I think I like the green grass best, and the gowans. "Allison Bain" by Margaret Murray Robertson

On the 10th, Beauregard announced his personal staff to consist of Colonels Wigfall, Chestnut, Means, M'Gowan, Manning, and Boyleston. "Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61" by Abner Doubleday

I am sure, it was Gowan, Lady Augusta said. "Vagabondia" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Society, the Circumlocution Office, and Mr. Gowan, are of course three parts of one idea and design. "The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete" by John Forster

Gowan waited, cold and unsmiling. "Out of the Depths" by Robert Ames Bennet

But where have her gowans gone? "Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)" by John Wilson

The fiddle was gien to me by Leddy Gowan, and I daurna pairt wi't. "Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland" by Various

When the second child, a boy, was born, Craig Gowan again blazed with a bonfire. "In the Days of Queen Victoria" by Eva March Tappan

The principal speakers at the Toronto meetings were P. M. Vankoughnet, John W. Gamble, Ogle R. Gowan, David B. "Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years" by Samuel Thompson

Usage in poetry
The warl it's dottit wi' hames
As thick as gowans o' the green,
Aye bonnier ilk ane nor the lave
To him wha there opent his een.
Her face is fair, her heart is true,
She's spotless as she's bonnie, O:
The op'ning gowan, wet wi' dew,
Nae purer is than Nannie, O.
She's just awee ayont sixteen,
An' pure as gowans on the braes;
The spring o' love is in her een,
Whose dew weets a' she thinks an' says.
But as it fell out on last Hallow-e'en,
When the seely court was ridin' by,
The queen lighted down on a gowan bank,
Near by the tree where I wont to lye.
In the glen the young gowan first open'd her e'e,
The bluebell an' primrose there first ye micht see;
The bracken was greenest, the sweet heather bell
The reddest and richest that bloom'd on the fell.
The gowans blossom'd bonnilie, I 'd pu' them from the stem,
An' rin in noisy blithesomeness to thee, my Bess, wi' them,
To place them in thy lily breast, for ae sweet smile on me,
I saw nae mair the gowans then, then saw I only thee.