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Definition of Rowan
1. Noun. Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits.
Generic synonyms: Mountain Ash
Terms within: Rowanberry
Definition of Rowan
1. n. Rowan tree.
Definition of Rowan
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Irish) ¹
2. Proper noun. (Irish male given name). ¹
3. Proper noun. (English female given name) of modern usage, often associated with the rowan tree. ¹
4. Noun. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus ''Sorbus'', belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rowan
1. a Eurasian tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rowan
1. Rowan tree. Rowan barry, a barry of the rowan tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rowan
Literary usage of Rowan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"O rowan tree! How fair wert thou in simmer time, wi' a' thy clusters white, ...
O rowan tree! O there arose my father's prayer, in holy evening's calm; ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The claim of rowan & Co. Is that Hull engaged tbem to sell for him a tract of
... The memorandum putting the land in the hands of rowan & Co. for sale is as ..."
3. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"CURRAN IN BEHALF OF rowan AND FREE SPEECH' (1794) Born In 1750, died in 1817;
... rowan, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, escaped to France. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1887)
"rowan et al. r. Runnels. proceedings at law ; that the bill and amended bill of
... rowan and Harris were citizens of Virginia, and Runnels was a citizen of ..."
5. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"Well do I mind that morning fair When, a mere hoy, I planted thee:— A kingdom
now were less my care Thau then my rowan-tree. How proudly did I fence thee ..."
6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"Mr. rowan himself, and not of ; Mr. Dowling, his attorney upon record ? ii you
... But, if it lias any weight, when did Mr. rowan come to the knowledge of ..."
7. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1874)
"rowan was allowed to entertain his friends in his private room, ... rowan copied
out the paper, and gave the copy to Jackson, who folded and sealed it, ..."
8. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1853)
"THERE were few persons whose history was connected with that of Ireland during
my time, who excited my interest in a greater degree than Mr. Hamilton rowan. ..."
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