verb

• (obsolete) 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."

verb

• (transitive, chiefly Scotland) 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."
• (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
  "'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:"

noun

• (nautical) Range of sight.
  "At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]"

noun

• (slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
  "Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you."