Ken
Definition of ken:
part of speech: participle
Kenned.
part of speech: verb
part of speech: verb
To know: to see and recognize at a distance.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: verb
To know; understand.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: participle
Kenning.
Usage examples for ken:
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I myself had not read much of him, but I knew the essays he was printing in the Atlantic, and I knew certain of his poems, though by no means many; yet I had this sense of him, that he was somehow, beyond and above my ken a presence of force and beauty and wisdom, uncompanioned in our literature.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells", William Dean Howells. -
And they were married, and he and she are living happy till this day, for aught I ken
"The Blue Fairy Book", Various. -
I wadna' say anythin' was wrong, ye ken but is he no' over confident and conceited aboot his wife?"
"The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories", Bret Harte. -
His voice lowered again as Ken pulled his belt a notch tighter and snatched a last glimpse of the fish before leaving.
"Seed of the Arctic Ice", H. G. Winter.