COWPER

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• COWPER (noun)
  The noun COWPER has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: COWPER used as a noun is rare.

• COWPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cowper; William Cowper

Instance hypernyms:

operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon (a physician who specializes in surgery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cowper; William Cowper

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

I thought so at the time; but you WOULD give him Cowper.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Does it not make you think of Cowper?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The clear viscous liquid produced by the bulbourethral (Cowper) gland that lubricates the urethra in preparation for the passage of sperm.

(Bulbourethral Gland Secretion, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the glands that secrete mucus into the urethra including the Cowper, Skene, and Littre glands.

(Paraurethral Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

When he was again in their company, he could not help remembering what he had seen; nor could he avoid observations which, unless it were like Cowper and his fire at twilight, Myself creating what I saw, brought him yet stronger suspicion of there being a something of private liking, of private understanding even, between Frank Churchill and Jane.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Nay, Mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!—but we must allow for difference of taste.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her eagerness, her impatience, her longings to be with them, were such as to bring a line or two of Cowper's Tirocinium for ever before her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have received every assurance of his admiring Pope no more than is proper.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And books! Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)