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A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
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A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
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A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
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An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
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A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
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A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
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A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
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A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
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A place in the United States:
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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noun
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
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A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
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Topics: Freemasonry, lifestyle
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A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
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Usage: slang
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Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
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A fishing-boat.
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Usage: Scotland, obsolete, rare
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History
First attested in 1598.
First attested in 1722; perhaps from the Scottish Gaelic cobhan (“coffer”, “box”, “ark”).
