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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,250 words match “KEN”

LEUKE; LEUKENESS a.

LIBKEN; LIBKIN n.

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

LIKEN v. 2 definitions

To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock. Matt. vii. 24.

LIKENESS n. 4 definitions

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

LOCKEN p. 2 definitions

of Lock. Chaucer.

To please; -- chiefly used impersonally. [Obs.] " Sith it lyketh you." Chaucer.

MEEK; MEEKEN v.

To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

Not to know. [Obs.]

MISTAKEN p. 2 definitions

Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.

MISTAKENLY adv.

By mistake. Goldsmith.

MISTAKENNESS n.

MOONSTRICKEN a.

See Moonstruck.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

NERVE-SHAKEN a.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. "In oaken bower." Milton. Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon.

A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. -- Out*spo"ken*ness, n.

or prep. Excepted; save. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer.

PANIC-STRICKEN; PANIC-STRUCK a.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.