KEN, verb transitive [Latin canus, white, caneo, to be white, and this with Latin cano, to sing, canto, Eng. to cant, to chant; Latin gigno.] 1. To see at a distance; to descry. We ken them from afar. 2. To know; to understand. [This verb is used chiefly in poetry.] KEN, verb intransitive To look round. KEN, noun View; reach of sight. Coasting they kept the land within their ken
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