Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the building of dry stone walls: used especially of one who has not been regularly trained in the mason's trade.
- noun Hence One who is not a Free-Mason.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
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- noun A worker in un
mortared stone; astonemason who has not served anapprenticeship . - noun freemasonry A person who attempts to pass himself off as a
Freemason without having experienced therituals or going through thedegrees . - noun slang A
sneak ; aninquisitive orprying person. - noun
uninitiated ,outside , “profane ” - noun Scotland, obsolete, rare A
fishing -boat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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October 23rd, 2009 at 8: 47 pm PDT sorry, but i love how he quotes hal varian, chief economist at google, about the value of network effects. reply peter cowan
Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Presentation (Full Slide Deck) MG Siegler 2005
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Maybe the next great network service is on a 16year old desktop somewhere in Massachusetts. reply peter cowan
Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Presentation (Full Slide Deck) MG Siegler 2005
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We have goats brought in every year to grub on the hills up Valparaiso. reply peter cowan
Google Rents Goats To Replace Lawnmowers (I’m Not Kidding) MG Siegler 2005
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As a boy, Bob had no way of knowing that “cow” might have been shorthand for “cowan,” an old Masonic term for “intruder.”
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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I saw mike last saturday night down to normies, and he told me that one of my old Best friends greg just moved up to cowan heights.
jillchafe18 Diary Entry jillchafe18 2003
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Staterail 1990 news footage of cowan rail disaster
WN.com - Articles related to Europe banks slide on Greek woes, U.S. probes 2010
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Staterail 1990 news footage of cowan rail disaster
WN.com - Articles related to Europe banks slide on Greek woes, U.S. probes 2010
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If your path, whether you are Pagan or otherwise, whether you are Witch or cowan, also moves you, or if it has value that doesn't even compare with the value I find in mine, then can you really say it is a religion like any other?
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Team theatre doing their thang at the 'tec (cavan vocational school) in 1986, with questions from audience including tec students .. aaron binchy, enda sullivan and dolores leddy. also see in the footage .. connor mcgowan, trevor cowan, fintan briody, martin egan, gerard sexton, paul casey, felim reilly, and loads more ... pt 2 to follow.
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep 2010
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Team theatre doing their thang at the 'tec (cavan vocational school) in 1986, with questions from audience including tec students .. aaron binchy, enda sullivan and dolores leddy. also see in the footage .. connor mcgowan, trevor cowan, fintan briody, martin egan, gerard sexton, paul casey, felim reilly, and loads more ... pt 2 to follow.
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep 2010
bilby commented on the word cowan
So are there batty conspiracies about cowans as well?
August 4, 2022