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gowan Sc. and north. dial.|ˈgaʊən|
Also 7 gouan.
[app. a dial. variant of golland.]
1. A general name for various yellow or white field flowers. When used without defining word, now always denoting the Common Daisy (Bellis perennis).
1570Satir. Poems Reform. xv. 5 Ȝe greinis, grow gray; ȝe gowanis, dune. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xli. 10 The feildis ouerflouis With gouans that grouis. 1701J. Brand Orkney (1703) 31 We saw the pleasantest mixture of Gowans..or Daisies white and yellow..that ever we had occasion to see. 1785Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxiii, His braw calf-ward whare gowans grew, Sae white and bonie. 1802Wordsw. Farewell 22 Thou, like the morning in thy saffron coat, Bright gowan, and marsh-marigold, farewell. 1812J. Wilson Agric. Renfrewsh. 136 (Jam.) Some of the prevailing weeds of the meadows and grass lands are..ox-eye, or large white gowan, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum [etc.]. 1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 284 The hearts of these two old women are as fresh as gowans. 1895Crockett Men of Moss Hags i. 1 The dales and holms were pranked out with white hawthorn and broad gowans.
2. With qualifications, as ewe gowan, may gowan, the Common Daisy; gule gowan, the Corn Marigold; horse gowan (see horse 28 c); lucken gowan, the Marsh Marigold; open gowan, the Globe-flower; witch gowan, the Globe flower, also the Dandelion; yellow gowan, any species of Ranunculus, also applied generically to all the yellow flowers mentioned above. (See Britten and Holland Plant-n. 1878–86.)
1721Ramsay Richy & Sandy 35 While on burn banks the Yellow Gowan grows. 1724― Yng. Laird & Katy, We'll pou the daisies on the green The lucken gowans frae the bog. 1810Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song 110 note, Witch⁓gowan flowers, are large yellow gowans, with a stalk filled with pernicious sap. 1842Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. x. 14 In Lanarkshire..the phrase, yellow gowans, yet flourishes as the common name of the creeping meadow crowfoot (Ranunculus repens). Ibid. 19 note, Ye'll get round again, if ye had your fit (foot) on the May gowan.
Hence ˈgowaned ppl. a., full of gowans; covered with gowans; ˈgowany a. = gowaned.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. ii, O Peggy!.. Sweeter than gowany glens or new mawn hay. a1774Fergusson King's Birthday Poems (1845) 4 Doggies play and lambies sport, On gowany braes. 1804W. Tarras Poems 80 On yon gowan'd lawn she was seen. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlv, The green was even, gowany, and fair. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXIV. 351 They sat on the gowany bank. 1847J. Halliday Rustic Bard 265 Clear is Allan's siller stream, An' sweet her gowan'd lea. |