lucken golland, lucken gowan dial.
Also 6–7 locker goulons, lockron gowlons, (8–9 -ans).
[f. lucken ppl. a. + golland, gowan.]
A north. dial. name for the Globe-flower, Trollius Europæus. (By Turner app. erron. applied to the Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris.)
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 26 Chameleuce..is called in Northumberlande a Lucken gollande. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cccli. 809 Locker Goulons, or globe Crow⁓foote. Ibid. 810 The globe flower is called..Lockron gowlons. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 333, 1740. 1724 Ramsay Yng. Laird & Katy, We'll pou the daisies on the green, The lucken gowans frae the bog. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Locker Gowlans, Trollius. 1821 Hogg When the kye comes hame iv. Poet. Wks, 1840 V. 73 When..the bonny lucken gowan Has fauldit up her ee. |