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Definition of Gowdie

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Note: The two British species are the great, or greater, weever (Trachinus draco), which becomes a foot long (called also gowdie, sea cat, stingbull, and weaverfish), and the lesser weever (T. vipera), about half as large (called also otter pike, and stingfish).
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Dragonet Drag"on*et, n. 1. A little dragon. --Spenser. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
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Gowdie Gow"die, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Dragont. [Scot.]

Meaning of Gowdie from wikipedia

- Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life...
- Gowdie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Isobel Gowdie, Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft in 1662 John Gowdie (1682–1762)...
- John Gowdie (1682–1762) was a Scottish academic and Church of Scotland minister. He was Moderator of the General ****embly of the Church of Scotland in...
- Symphony Orchestra's premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990. Isobel Gowdie was one of many women executed for witchcraft in 17th-century...
- plague and die. The spate of deaths is blamed on a widow, Mem Gowdie and her niece, Anys Gowdie, the village's herbalists and midwives, who are accused of...
- have been inspired by Janet Gowdie, a Vampire-Witch hybrid and daughter of the real falsely accused witch Isobel Gowdie and a vampire named Nickie-Ben...
- The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is a work for large symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. It is, according to the composer, a Requiem...
- Nairn named Isobel Gowdie was accused and confessed to four counts of Witchcraft and is immortalised in The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, an orchestra piece...
- William Hamilton 1732 James Smith 1736 William Wishart (secundus) 1754 John Gowdie 1762 William Robertson 1793 George Husband Baird 1840 John Lee 1859 David...
- Fian Agnes Finnie Maud Galt Gorms****l Mhòr na Maighe (aka Gormla) Isobel Gowdie Helen Guthrie Gwen ferch Ellis Janet Horne Grissel Jaffray Mary Hicks Marie...