noun.
Cognizance; physical or intellectual view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
A dialectal variant of kine, plural of cow.
noun.
The straight two-edged Japanese sword.
To beget; bring forth.
To breed; hatch out.
To show; declare; teach; point out; tell.
To see; descry; recognize.
To lie within sight of; have a view of.
To know; understand; take cognizance of.
In Scots law, to acknowledge or recognize by a judicial act: as, to ken a widow to her terce (that is, to recognize or decree by a judicial act the right of a widow to the life-rent of her share of her deceased husband's lands). See terce.
To look around; gain knowledge by sight; discern.
noun.
A churn.
noun.
A place where low or disreputable characters lodge or meet: as, a padding-ken (a lodging-house for tramps); a sport ing-ken
noun.
A prefecture or territorial division of Japan, governed by a kenrei. Japan is now divided into 3 fu and about 40 ken.
noun.
A Japanese measure of length, equal to 71½ English inches.
noun.
An abbreviation of Kentueky.