ken

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.

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.

Johnny: Is your name Maggie? / Maggie: How'd you ken that? / Johnny: It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?

To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:

I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.

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.

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.

Within our ken / The Nightingale—ah! Love, the Nightingale! / Her tender sweetness made our cheeks grow pale,

Range of sight.

At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]