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Meaning
Noun
●
A
worker
in
unmortared
stone
; a
stonemason
who has not
served
an apprenticeship.
●
In Freemasonry:
A person who
attempts
to
pass
himself off as a Freemason without having
experienced
the
rituals
or
going through
the degrees.
●
A
sneak
; an
inquisitive
or
prying
person.
●
Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
●
In Scottish English:
A fishing-boat.
Name
●
A Scottish
surname
from Scottish Gaelic; an
anglicization
of
mac
Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
●
A
surname
from Irish; an
anglicization
of
mac
Eógain (“son of Owen”)
●
A Jewish
surname
from Hebrew; 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
word
meaning
“big water”.
●
A
town
in Manitoba.
●
A
census-designated place
in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
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