Talk:cowen

RFV
Really? SemperBlotto 11:21, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Surely it's cowan, not cowen. But the definition given at cowan seems to differ from the one at cowen and is maybe an older meaning of the word.--Dmol 12:31, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The OED [2ⁿᵈ ed., 1989] has undefined:, but only as an eighteenth-century spelling of undefined: (which sense I've just added to our entry); note that its entry is (AFAICT) unchanged from that of the NED [1ˢᵗ ed., 1893] except for the addition of one quotation. Rather than being some older sense, “someone who is not a witch”, if such usage exists, is probably a more recent (i.e., post–nineteenth-century) adoption of the Masonic term by Wiccan and/or Neopagan groups. As for “the commander of the genii (chief cowen)”, that usage, if its exists, is wholly unlike the other senses we have, and may be a corruption of the term by conflation with . — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 02:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Disputed senses RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 04:01, 11 April 2012 (UTC)