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Ken   /kɛn/   Listen
verb
Ken  v. t.  (past & past part. kenned; pres. part. kenning)  
1.
To know; to understand; to take cognizance of. (Archaic or Scot.)
2.
To recognize; to descry; to discern. (Archaic or Scot.) "We ken them from afar." "'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait."


Ken  v. i.  To look around. (Obs.)


noun
Ken  n.  A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. (Slang, Eng.)


Ken  n.  Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. "Beyond his ken." "Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension." "It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men."





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"Ken" Quotes from Famous Books



... Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken, Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields
... to myself! The phantoms all about here, in the college archways, and windows. They used to look friendly in the old days, particularly Addison, and Gibbon, and Johnson, and Dr. Browne, and Bishop Ken—" ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... Ise gave her a Gown of Green on the Grass, But now Ise no longer must tarry here: Then saddle my Nag that's bonny and gay, For now it is time to gang hence away, Then open the Gates and let me go free, She's ken me no ...
— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various
... divine. Innumerable mountains rise, and rise, Ambitious for the hallowing of thine eyes, And yet thy benediction passeth not One obscure hiding-place, one little spot Where pleasure may be sent; the nested wren Has thy fair face within its tranquil ken;" ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... time what they were going ter do with me. Then we stopped before the chief's lodge,—Tabba-ken, or the Big Eagle, he was called,—and they motioned for me to dismount. I hadn't hardly struck the ground, before I found what they were going to do with me; for would you believe it, every old squaw and pappoose in that village, that had strength enough, flew at me and commenced ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens


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