well-kenned, -kent, ppl. a. Sc.
Well-known, familiar.
| a 1796 Burns On Willie Chalmers 9, I doubt na, lass, that weel-kend name May cost a pair o' blushes. ― Epigr. to Artist 7 You'll easy draw a weel-kent face, But no sae weel a stranger. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped i, Others, all well-kenned gentlemen, had pleasure in his society. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxvii. 205 So I was here upon well-kenned ground. |