ken 
Let tills suffice, that they are safely come within a ken 
of Dover. Lyly, Euphues. 
While here, at home, my narrower ken 
Somewhat of manners saw, and men. 
Scott, Marmion, iv., Int. 
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 
When a new planet swims into his ken. 
Keats, Sonnet on Chapman's Homer. 
ken 2 t (ken),r. [< ME. ~kennen,< AS. cennan =OS. 
kennian = OHG. "kennan, *chennan (in comp. 
gi-chennan), beget, bring forth; causal of a 
primitive verb found in Teut. only in deriva- 
tive, = L. root of gignere (OL. genere), beget, 
genus, kind, race, family, = Gr. root of yiyveadm, 
yevtaffat, be born, become, be, = Skt. yjan, be- 
get, intr. be born: see kin 1 , kind*, kind*, kindle 1 , 
etc., and genus, gender, generate, -gen, -genotis, 
geny, etc.] I. trans. To beget; bring forth. 
II. intrans. To breed ; hatch out. 
With hir corps keuereth hem [eggs] till that they kenne, 
And ffostrith and ffodith till ffedris schewe 
And cotis of kynde hem keuere all aboute. 
Richard the Redtlets, iii. 51. 
ken 3 (ken), n. id. A dialectal variant of kiiie 1 , 
plural of cow 1 , Halliwell. 
ken 4 (ken), . [Cf. fcer 2 .] A churn. Halli- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
ken 5 (ken), . [Perhaps an abbr. of kennel 1 .] 
A place where low or disreputable characters 
lodge or meet: as, a padding-fcen (a lodging- 
house for tramps); a sporting-ATM. [Slang, 
Eng.] 
ken* (ken), H. [Jap., < Chin. Men, q. v.] A pre- 
fecture or territorial division of Japan, govern- 
ed by a kenrei. Japan is now divided into 3 fu 
and about 40 ken. 
ken 7 (ken), n. [Jap.] A Japanese measure of 
length, equal to 71 English inches. 
kench (kench), n. [Also kinch; a var. of canch : 
see canch.'] 1. Same as canch. 2. A box or 
bin for use in salting fish or skins. 
The [seal-Jskins are all taken to the salt-houses, and are 
salted in kenches, or square bins. 
C. 3f. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 181. 
The salt-house is a large, barn-like frame structure, so 
built as to afford one third of its width in the center, from 
end to end, clear and open as a passage-way, while on each 
side are rows of stanchions with sliding planks, which are kennetHj " 
taken down and put up in the form of deep bins, or boxes 
kenches, the sealers call them 
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as in ovile, sheepfold, bovile, bubile, an ox-stall, 
etc.: see canis, canine, and cf. kennet 1 .] 1. A 
house or cot for a dog, or for a pack of hounds. 
Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4, 124. 
2. A pack of hounds ; a collection of dogs of 
any breed or of different breeds. 
A little herd of England's timorous deer, 
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs ! 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 2, 47. 
3. The hole of a fox or other beast ; a haunt. 
kennel 1 (ken'el), v. ; pret. and pp. kenneled or 
kennelled, ppr. kenneling or kennelling. [< ken- 
nel 1 , n.] I. intrans. To lodge or dwell in a 
kennel, or in the manner of a dog or a fox. 
Who'd . . . 
Kennel with his dogs, that had a prince 
Like this young Pennyboy to sojourn with ! 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1. 
Look you ! hereabout it was that she [the otter] ken- 
nelfd. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 00. 
The dog kennelled in a hollow tree. Sir R. L'Estrange. 
II. trans. To keep or confine in a kennel. 
kennel 2 t (ken'el), n. [< ME. canel, < OF. canel, 
assibilated chanel, > ME. chanel, E. channel: see 
channel 1 (and canal 1 ), of which kennel 2 is a dou- 
blet.] A little canal or channel ; specifically, 
the drainage-channel of a street ; a gutter. 
If anye of them happen to be iustled downe by a post, 
. . . and so reeles them into the kennell, who takes them 
vp or leades them home ? Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 26. 
The next rain wash'd it [the street-dust] quite away, so 
that the pavement and even the kennel were perfectly 
clean. Franklin, Autobiog., I. 308. 
Most of these Essays have been regularly reprinted 
twice or thrice a year, and conveyed to the public through 
the kennel of some engaging compilation. 
Goldsmith, Essays, Pref. 
kennel-coal (ken'el-kol), n. See cannel-coal. 
kennel-rakert (ken'el-ra"k6r), . One who 
rakes gutters ; a low fellow. 
Give your petitions 
In seemly sort, and keep your hat off decently, 
A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker. 
Fletcher (and another"!), The Prophetess, iii. 1. 
. 
Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 370. 
kench-cured (kench'kurd), a. Cured with dry 
salt : said of fish, in distinction from pickle-cured. 
kendal (ken'dal), n. and a. [So called from Ken- 
dal, a town in Westmoreland, England, where it 
was first made.] I. n. A coarse woolen cloth. 
Of kendal very coarse his coat was made. 
Thynne, Pride and Lowliness. 
He [Henry VIII.] was attended by twelve noblemen, all 
apparelled in short coats of Kentish kendal, with hoods 
and hosen of the same. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 457. 
II. a. Made of or resembling the woolen 
cloth called kendal. 
A kendal coat in summer, and a frieze coat in winter. 
Sta/ard (1581). 
Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green came at my 
back and let drive at me. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4, 246. 
Kendall's case. See case 1 . 
kenet, a. and adv. Middle English form of keen 1 . 
kenebowet, Same as kimbo. See akimbo. 
Kenilwortn ivy. See in/ 1 . 
kenk (kengk), . Same as kink 1 . 
Kennedya (ke-ne'di-a), . [NL. (Ventenat, 
1804), named after Mr. Kennedy, a gardener 
of Hammersmith near London.] A genus of 
perennial leguminous herbs, belonging to the 
tribe Phaseolete, or bean family, most nearly 
related to Hardenbergia, but differing from it 
in the more showy red or purple flowers and 
longer keel (relatively to the wings). There are 
17 known species of this genus, all natives of Australia 
and Tasmania, many of which are cultivated for their 
showy flowers, under the name of bean-flower, but are 
more or less confounded by florists with Hardenbergia. 
K. rubimnda, the red bean-flower, is the species most fre- 
quently seen in conservatories of England and the United 
States. Numerous leaf-impressions found in the Tertiary 
rocks of Bohemia, Croatia, and Carinthia have been re- 
ferred with confidence to this genus by competent spe- 
cialists, and four fossil species are described. 
Kennedyeae (ken-e-di'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Ben- 
tham, 1838), < Kennedya + -eai.] A subtribe of 
leguminous plants of the tribe Phaseolea;, em- 
bracing, in the systems of Endlicher and Lind- 
ley, the genera Kennedya, Hardenbergia, Zichya, 
Physolooium, and Loptooyamns. Originally writ- 
ten Kennediea;. 
kennel 1 (ken'el), . [< ME. kenel, kenell, < AF. 
*kfnil, OF. client! = It. cttnile, < ML. canile, aken- 
nel, a house for a dog, < L. cants, a dog, + -He, a 
suffix denoting a place where animals are kept, 
You did not love cruelty, you kennel-raker, you gibbet- 
arrier ! Arbuthnot, Miscellaneous Works (ed. 1751), 1. 49. 
ennetif, n. [< ME. kenet, kenit, < AF. kenet, 
dim. of ken, OF. chen, F. chien = Pg. cao = It. 
cane, < L. canis, a dog : see canis, canine.] A 
small dog of some particular breed. 
A kenet kryes therof, the hunt on hym calles. 
Sir Qawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1701. 
My lord hadde a kenet f el, 
That he loved swyth wel. 
Seven Sages (ed. Wright), 1. 1762. 
kennet 2 (ken'et), M. [Origin obscure.] A cleat; 
a cavel. 
kenning 1 (keu'ing), n. [< ME. kenning = Dan. 
kjeiiding, verbal n. of ken 1 , v.] If. Sight ; view ; 
especially, a distant view at sea. 
Nawther company by course hade kennyng of other, 
liut past to there purpos & no prise made, 
And sailet vpon syde vnto sere costys. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2837. 
2f. Eange or extent of vision, especially at 
sea; hence, a marine measure of about twenty 
miles. 
"Scylley is a kennyng, that is to say, about xx. miles 
from the very Westeste pointe of Cornewaulle." Itin. 
iii. f. 0. Horn, of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Notes, p. 256. 
Thre kennynges ferre on the see, that is, one and twenty 
leghes ferre. Prose Romance of Melusine, fol. 61. 
The next day about evening we saw, within a kenning, 
thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land. 
Bacon. 
3. As little as one can recognize or discrimi- 
nate ; a small portion ; a little : as, put in a ken- 
ning of salt. [Scotch.] 
Though they may gang a kennin wrang, 
To step aside is human. 
Burns, To the Unco Guid. 
kenning 2 t, . [< fc 2 + -ing 1 .] The cicatricula 
or tread of an egg. Also kinning. 
Om mntilicus. The streine or kenning of the egge. 
Nomenclator (1585). 
There is found in the top or sharper end of an egge, 
within the shell, a certaine round knot resembling a drop 
or a navill rising above the rest, which they call a kin- 
ning. Holland, tr. of Pliny, x. 52. 
keno (ke'no), n. [Also spelled Itino ; origin ob- 
scure.] A game of chance depending on the 
drawing of numbers. Each player selects a card or 
cards bearing a series of numbers in lines of five each, 
paying a set price for each card. Each player puts a but- 
ton on any number on his card which is announced as 
drawn from a wheel, and he who flrst has five buttons in 
a row wins all the money taken for that round, minus the 
bank's discount. 
kenogenesis (ken-o-jen'e-sis), . [< Gr. Kcvof, 
empty (see cenotaph, etc.), + -ytveatf, genera- 
kent 
tion.] Vitiated evolution, as distinguished from 
hereditary evolution ; ontogenesis modified by 
adaptation, and therefore not true to its type ; 
that development of an individual germ which 
does not truly epitomize and repeat the phy- 
logenetic evolution of its race or stock: the 
opposite of palingenesis. See biogeny. Also 
kenogoiy. 
The ontogenetic recapitulation of the phylogeny is the 
more perfect the more the palingenetic process is con- 
served by heredity, and the more imperfect in proportion 
as the later modified evolution (kenogenesis) is introduced 
by adaptation. Haeckel, quoted in Encyc. Brit., XX. 422. 
kenogenetic (ken"o-je-uet'ik), a. [< kenogene- 
sis, after genetic.'] ' Of or pertaining to keno- 
genesis. Kenogenetic process. See the extract. 
The term kenogenetic process (or vitiation of the history 
of the germ) is applied to all such processes in germ-his- 
tory as are not to be explained by heredity from primceval 
parent-germs, but which have been acquired at a later 
time in consequence of the adaptation of the germ or em- 
bryo form to special conditions of evolution. 
Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 10. 
kenogenetically (ken"o-je-net'i-kal-i), adc. In 
a kenogenetic manner, llaeckel. 
kenogeny (ke-noj'e-ni), n. [< Gr. Kev6f, empty. 
+ -yevcia, < -yev>K, producing: see -genous.] 
Same as kenogenesis. 
kenosis (ke-no'sis), . [NL., < Gr. Ktvuatf, an 
emptying, depletion, in theological use with 
ref. to Phil. ii. 6, 7, ''who, being in the form of 
God, . . . emptied himself (lavrov enevuoe), tak- 
ing the form of a servant" (revised version) ; 
< KCVOVV, make empty, < Kevof, empty.] In thcol., 
the self-limitation and self-renunciation of the 
Son of God in the incarnation. 
Some restrict the tenosis to the laying aside of the di- 
vine form of existence, or divine dignity and glory ; others 
strain it in different degrees, even to a partial or entire 
emptying of the divine essence out of himself, so that the 
inner trinitarian process between Father and Son, and the 
government of the world through the Son, were partially 
or wholly suspended during his earthly life. 
Scha/, Hist, Christ. Church, III. 142, 8. 
kenotic (ke-not'ik), n. [< Gr. KevuTin6f, per- 
taining to emptying, < nevuoit;, emptying: see 
kenosis.'] Of or pertaining to the kenosis. 
Instead of raising the finite to the infinite, the modern 
Kenotic theory lowers the infinite to the Unite. 
Scha/, Christ and Christianity, p. 110. 
kenoticist (ke-not'i-sist), n. [< kenotic + -int.] 
One who believes in the theory of the kenosis. 
The Chalcedonian Christology has been subjected to a 
rigorous criticism in Germany by Schleiermacher, Baur, 
Dorner, Rothe, and the modern Kenoticists. 
Scha/, Christ and Christianity, p. 67. 
kensback (kenz'bak), a. [See kenspeck.] 1. 
Conspicuous: evident; clear. 2. Perverse. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng. in both senses.] 
kenspeck (ken'spek), . [Also corruptly kens- 
back; more commonly kenspeckle, q. v. ; < Icel. 
kennispeki, the faculty of recognition, < kenni, a 
mark (cf. G. kennzeichen), < kenna, know, recog- 
nize, ken. + speki, wisdom, < spakr, wise, hav- 
ing prophetic vision or insight: see ken 1 .] 
Known by marks ; strongly marked or conspic- 
uous; readily recognizable. [Prov. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
The Homeric text is ... certainly kenspeck, to use a 
good old English word that is to say, recognizable ; you 
challenge it for Homer's whenever you see it. 
De Quincey, Homer, iii, 
kenspeckle (keu'spek-1), a. [E. dial, also ken- 
speckled; in pop. apprehension "speckled or 
marked so as to be conspicuous" (Halliwell): 
see kenspeck.] Same as kenspeck, and the more 
common form. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Enfj. Man. What kind of a Woman is it you enquire af- 
ter? 
Gio. Geud troth, she's no Kenspeckle, she'sawinaClowd 
[she had a Spanish veil over her]. 
Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder, iii. 
I grant ye his face is kenspeckle, 
That the white o' his e'e is turn'd out. 
Sicol, Poems, II. 157. 
It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by 
old Eckie of Caunobie I would swear to the curve of the 
cawker. Scott, Monastery, xxxiv. 
kent 1 (kent), n. [Perhaps a var. of cant 1 , ., 
taken in sense of ' that which cants or tilts': see 
canfl, v. and n.] 1. A long staff used by shep- 
herds for leaping over ditches and brooks ; a 
rough walking-stick ; a pole. [Scotch.] 
A better lad ne'er lean'd out o'er a tent. 
Ramsay, Richy and Sandy. 
He bade me fling doun my kent, and sae me and my 
mither yielded oursells prisoners. 
Scott, Old Mortality, xiv. 
He canned a long pole or /.r?, like the alpenstock, tol- 
erably polished, with a turned top on it, on which he 
rested. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 1st ser., p. 424. 
