kent

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I tell you fair: if I but kent the heid of a Hebrew word from the hurdies of it, be dammed but I would fling the whole thing up and turn minister It's rather a hard position," said I Dooms hard!"

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  1. verb Scots A past tense and a past participle of ken.

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  • You could try kent, which isnt too far away but for decent AYTO in Essex you need to look a lot further out and you will definitely need a car.
  • Season seven was the worst season ever, with the Veritas story arc and Lana trying to be evil. the story of teenage clark kent aka superman. along w / his parnets and friends, clark learns to control and utilize his powers and eventually become the worlds greatest superhero.
  • Syne folk began to mind 'at there had been na bairns born on the farm as far back as onybody kent, an' it was said 'at some lang syne crime had made the Bog cursed Dinna think 'at we juist lay in our beds or sat round the fire shakkin' wi' fear. —  A Window in Thrums
  • Sandy took a gullar o't afore he kent, an' I think he thocht he was brunt, for he nippit up the water bottle, an' took a sweech o' cauld watter, an' then gae a pech like's he'd come ooten a fit. —  My Man Sandy
  • I kent it was gaun on a' the time; but like mony mair I hae kent, a manager's favor was mair to me than the honor o' a wife. —  The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
 

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  1. Perhaps a variant of cant, n., taken in sense of ‘that which cants or tilts’: see cant, v. and n.
  2. from kent, n.
 

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