Usually means: Uninitiated person, not Freemason member.
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  1. cowan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cowan: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Cowan, cowan: Wordnik
  4. Cowan, cowan: Wiktionary
  5. COWAN, Cowan: Dictionary.com
  6. Cowan (surname), Cowan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Cowan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. cowan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Cowan: Rhymezone
  10. Cowan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cowan: Free Dictionary
  12. Cowan: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. COWAN: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cowan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cowan: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cowan)

noun:  A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
noun:  (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
noun:  (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
noun:  (in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
noun:  A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
noun:  A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
noun:  A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
noun:  An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
noun:  A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  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.

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