10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUCKENGOWAN»
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luckengowan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Stray leaves from a border garden
Allan Ramsay, that quaint old poet, calls it the Luckengowan. "Lucken" means "
shut" or "locked up," and "gowan" is the old name of Caltha palus- tris, the Marsh-
Marigold, so the derivation of Luckengowan is clear. In Iceland the Trollius is ...
Mary Pamela Ellis Milne-Home, 1901
Also to enclose or shut up. Lucken — close, growing closely together, or closely
joined to one another. Luckengowan — the globe flower. Trollius Europa'us.
Lucky young — too young. Lue — love ; lued — loved. Lugs— ears. Luik — look.
3
Willie Waugh; or, The angel o'hame: a rural Scottish tale in ...
The yellow luckengowan was Globosus ! The Deevil's-bit, a kin' o' Scabiosus 1
The bonnie blaw-wart, Scotlan's sweet blue-bell, Was a Campanula, if richt I spell
; The nicks aroun' the rose leaf, were Seratures ! Snail-cups, the exuvae o' ...
4
The Songstresses of Scotland by Sarah Tytler and J. L. ...
Its climate is that of the Devonshire of Scotland; and as Devonshire lanes have a
rich flora, no wild flowers in Scotland bloom “by bank and brae,” north, south, east
, or west, like the luckengowan of Kyle, the pimpernel and the variegated thistle ...
5
The Chambers Dictionary
See Gov. gowan gow'm, (Scot and NEng dialed) n the wild daisy: the ox-eye
daisy (also horse -gowan) — adj gow aned - adj gow'any. luckengowan the
globeflower. [Appar a form of gollan(d)] gowd. gowdspink Scots form of gold1,
goldspink ...
6
Willie Waugh and Other Poems
The wee red gowan on the simmer lee, Whilk guid auld Chaucer ca'd the young
day's e'e, Willie, wi' earnest look, glib-tongued, wad tell us It's real scientific name
was Bellows ! * The yellow luckengowan was Globosus ! The Deevil's-bit a kin' ...
James Nicholson, Ellen C. Nicholson, 1884
7
Chambers English-Hindi Dictionary
«TS; л. luckengowan тттттту^т lucky, luckie (prefixed or vocative, Lucky) n. (Scot
.) зттз *T>; TTTTT ^ ^ir ^^% wuft çrt; л. luckie-dad ?T?T, TTTT lucky л. (slang)
Torrar, ^ртт, ЧТТ зптт; — cut, or make, one's lucky *fl+ ТЯ ЧТТ ЗГТТТ lucre /1.
зттт, ...
Sureśa Avasthī, Indujā Avasthī, 1981
8
Burns Chronicle and Club Directory
Thus we have in old Scots “ The Ewe Gowan or Daisy ; ” the “ Horse-Gowan,”
which included the Dandelion, Hawk-weeds, rand Tussilago ; the “ largewhite
Gowan” or Ox-eye; the “LuckenGowan ” or Globe-flower; the “ Witches' Gowan,”
which ...
9
Angus or Forfarshire, the land and its people, descriptive ...
Trollius Europams, mountain globe-flower, or luckengowan, is found growing
abundantly high up on moist rocky ledges, but as it is sometimes found in
lowland woods and streams, it has doubtful claims to be ranked as a true ...
Alexander Johnston Warden, 1881
10
Chambers's encyclopaedia: a dictionary of universal knowledge
The common yellow globe-flower ( T. euro- patus ; Scottice Luckengowan ) is one
of the finest ornaments of moist grounds in elevated districts of northern Europe
and in the Alps. It is cultivated in flower-gardens. The orange globe-flower (T.
Chambers, David Patrick, William Geddie, 1901
