Gowans

Word GOWANS
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Gowans"

What do we mean by gowans?

The common daisy.

Decomposed granite.

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The word "gowans" in example sentences

The day had been sultry, and the moon rose slowly over the mounds of Maiden Bower, once the site of the noble mansion of the Percys, now destroyed and desolate; [2] and fell in dreary softness on tower and wood, illumining the sable firs of Newby Park, and throwing another lustre on the gaudy "gowans" that decked the adjacent meadow. ❋ Various (N/A)

The archaic sound of the Lowland Scots phrases—"we twa hae run about the braes/ and pu't the gowans fine"—gives it the ring of something both ancient and familiar, just as the song itself is about distance and proximity, about the faraway friend and the one raising a glass with you now. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)

There's also a modest bunch of pressed wildflowers she and Nathaniel picked on Burns's Mossgiel Farm—the wild daisies, or gowans, of "Auld Lang Syne." ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)

RULES FOR REPORTING THE WAR by Stephen Gowans Monday, Aug. 14, 2006 gowans. blogspot.com/2006/08/rules-for-reporting-on-war. html ❋ Unknown (2006)

But here a little patch of cleared ground shows old friends, who seem to cling by abused civilisation: - fine, hardy thistles, one of them bright yellow, though; — honest, Scotch-looking, large daisies or gowans; — potatoes here and there, looking but sickly; and dark sturdy fig-trees looking cool and at their ease in the burning sun. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Swappin yarns tae cowe the gowans, O horo, the Gillie Mor ❋ Unknown (1997)

To Naseby he went in 1842, in company with Dr. Arnold, and 'plucked two gowans and a cowslip from the burial heaps of the slain'. ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)

Wi 'gowans and buttercups buskin' the thorny wands -- ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)

He confesses his ignorance as to what gowans are, but I have no doubt that Copperfield and myself would frequently have taken a pull at them, if it had been feasible. ❋ James T. Lightwood (N/A)

Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_ ❋ Various (N/A)

I saw nae mair the gowans then, then saw I only thee. ❋ Various (N/A)

The gowans blossom'd bonnilie, I 'd pu' them from the stem, ❋ Various (N/A)

The bonnie green knowes where the wee gowans grow; ❋ Various (N/A)

Whose life-blood stain'd the gowans of some far foreign lea, ❋ Various (N/A)

It 's no because the gowans bright grow bonnie by its ruit, ❋ Various (N/A)

When the earth wi 'the gowans o' July was dress'd; ❋ Various (N/A)

When on the thorn the mavis sings and gowans deck the lea, -- ❋ Various (N/A)

A very small bedroom, but a very clean bed, received the traveller, and the sheets made good the courteous vaunt of the hostess, ‘that they would be as pleasant as he could find ony gate, for they were washed wi’ the fairy-well water, and bleached on the bonny white gowans, and bittled by Nelly and hersell; and what could woman, if she was a queen, do mair for them? ❋ Unknown (1917)

I am not exactly aware, ” said Mr. Micawber, with the old roll in his voice, and the old indescribable air of saying something genteel, “what gowans may be, but I have no doubt that Copperfield and myself would frequently have taken a pull at them, if it had been feasible. ❋ Unknown (1917)

I may say, of myself and Copperfield, in words we have sung together before now, that We twa hae run about the braes And pu'd the gowans 'fine ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)

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