ken

noun7

1. •
   Range of perception.

   • I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go the ladder to swim away beyond my ken. — 1909
2. •
   Knowledge, perception, or sight.

   • So far is it from the kenne of these wretched projectors of ours that bescraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. — 1642
3. •
   Range of sight.

   • At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […] — 1667
4. •
   (Judaism) Youth or children's group.

   • Gilboa and Habonim Dror also run year-round programming, holding regional reunions (called kenim) up and down the state — 2016
5. •
   A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.
6. •
   (UK, slang) A house, especially a den of thieves.

   • 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. — 1611
7. •
   The tsurugi (type of sword).

verb3

1. •
   (Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.

   • 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. — 1902
2. •
   (Scotland, no longer used) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

   • 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He rises on the toe: — 1602
3. •
   (no longer used) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).

   • To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives. — 1524

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of Kentucky: a state of the United States.