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Definition of Cowper

1. Noun. English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709).

2. Noun. English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800).

Definition of Cowper

1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English from=Middle English dot=), a variant of Cooper. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A cooper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowper

Cowardian Cowboy State Cowboys Cowden Cowden's disease Cowdry Cowdry's type A inclusion bodies Cowdry's type B inclusion bodies Cowie Cowles

Cowleyan Cowling Cowling's rule Cowpens Cowper (current term) Cowper's cyst Cowper's gland Cowper's glands Cowper's ligament Cowperian

Cowtown Cowtowns Cox's Bazar District Cox's Orange Pippin Cox-1 Cox-2 Cox-2 inhibitor Coxsackie encephalitis

Literary usage of Cowper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"[WILLIAM Cowper was born at the rectory, Great Berkhamstead, Nov. 26, 1731. His father, the rector of the parish, was a nephew of Lord Chancellor Cowper; ..."

2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"Lord Cowper a Commissioner, 304. Lord Cowper pleased with his Precedence, 304. ... Lord Cowper returns Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough, 314. ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Mr. Cowper, yon are not under such disadvantage aa men usually are that stand where you now do. You have been educated in the study of ..."

4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"The effect of Milton and Thomson on Cowper exemplified. VII. ... Translations of Homer; visit of Milton to Cowper in a dream. THE triumphs and auguries of ..."

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