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1. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.Examples: "It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one."; "Johnny: Is your name Maggie? / Maggie: How'd you ken that? / Johnny: It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?"; "Ah thought he wis being harsh, flippant and show-oafy, until ah got sae far in. Now ah ken precisely what the cunt meant."Scotlandtransitive

2. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.Examples: "'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:"; "I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off."; "We ken them from afar."Scotlandobsolete

1. (nautical) Range of sight.Examples: "At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]"uncountable

1. (slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.Examples: "Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you."; "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?"; "Up she goes to any likely ken, where she knows there are women that are married or expect to get married, and commences begging."UKobsoleteslang

1. (Judaism) Youth or children's group.Examples: "Gilboa and Habonim Dror also run year-round programming, holding regional reunions (called kenim) up and down the state"; "Gavriella: At an annual movement conference. I went for the first time, and we proposed creating new kenim [branches] and it was approved, which is amazing!"; "At the beginning of 1944 he was sent to Debreccen to operate the local ken and to organize self-defense."Judaism

1. (colloquial, in combination) Kensington in London.Examples: "Kensington High Street — better known as High Street Ken after the nearby tube — is dominated architecturally by […]"; "The ladies (and gentlemen) of South Ken and Chelsea do like their raw food, and Daphne's does a terrific tuna tartare with avocado and wild fennel, black figs, gorgonzola and hazelnuts; […]"colloquialin-compounds