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.n. Cognizance; physical or intellectual view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.To beget; bring forth.To breed; hatch out.A dialectal variant of kine, plural of cow.n. A churn.n. A place where low or disreputable characters lodge or meet: as, a padding-ken (a lodging-house for tramps); a sport ing-kenn. A prefecture or territorial division of Japan, governed by a kenrei. Japan is now divided into 3 fu and about 40 ken.n. A Japanese measure of length, equal to 71½ English inches.n. The straight two-edged Japanese sword.n. An abbreviation of Kentueky.