单词 | kenning |
释义 | kenningn.1 northern dialect. A dry measure: = two pecks, or half a bushel; a vessel containing this quantity. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > vessel of specific size or capacity quart?c1335 kenning1344 pint1354 quart pot1383 gill?c1425 quartelet1459 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > peck > two pecks tyntec1440 tovet1520 frundelc1550 kenningc1574 half-fou'1803 1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 496 In 47 qr. 2 ken. prebende.] 1344–5 Inv. Norham Castle in Northumbld. Gloss. Kenine. 1392 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 345 Will's Byng kennen bon.] c1574 Inv. Warkworth Cas. in Hist. Northumbld. (1899) V. 66 A bushell mett, a keninge, ij peckes. 1576 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 410 I gyve..one kennyng of wheat to the poore. 1673 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 196 A kening of wheate flower for pyes. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Kennen, Kenning, a measure of two pecks. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Kennin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kenningn.2 Now only Scottish and northern dialect (exc. sense 6). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] lore971 wissingc1000 wordloreOE teachingc1175 kenningc1320 lering1377 learningc1380 disciplinea1382 doctrinec1384 ensignment1398 instruction?a1439 schoolc1449 schoolingc1449 document?a1500 instructing1516 entechmenta1522 institution1531 teachment1562 repasting1567 tuition1582 lessoning1583 tutoring1590 loring1596 tutorage1638 indoctrination1646 principling1649 tutorya1713 tutorhood1752 didactic1754 documenting1801 pupillizing1815 tutorizing1837 tutorization1842 tutelagea1856 coachmanship1873 preception1882 c1320 Sir Beues (MS. A) 644 Þe stedes hom to stable ran Wiþ oute kenning [v.r. techyng] of eni man. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2472 When y blamed my doughter ȝyng, & gaf no kepe til hure kennyng. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 194 Þis is catounes kennyng to clerkes þat he lereth. a. Sign, token. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign tokeningc888 fingereOE senyeOE markOE showing?c1225 blossomc1230 signa1325 signifyingc1384 evidencea1393 notea1398 forbysena1400 kenninga1400 knowinga1400 showerc1400 unningc1400 signala1413 signification?a1425 demonstrancec1425 cenyc1440 likelinessc1450 ensign1474 signifure?a1475 outshowinga1500 significativea1500 witter1513 precedent1518 intimation1531 signifier1532 meith1533 monument1536 indicion?1541 likelihood1541 significator1554 manifest1561 show1561 evidency1570 token-teller1574 betokener1587 calendar1590 instance1590 testificate1590 significant1598 crisis1606 index1607 impression1613 denotementa1616 story1620 remark1624 indicium1625 denotation1633 indice1636 signum1643 indiction1653 trace1656 demonstrator1657 indication1660 notationa1661 significatory1660 indicator1666 betrayer1678 demonstration1684 smell1691 wittering1781 notaa1790 blazonry1850 sign vehicle1909 marker1919 rumble1927 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18332 Þou..has þe kenening [read takening; Gött. taken of] þe rode Raised in erth of ur ranscum. b. Appearance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] onseneeOE bleea1000 shapeOE ylikeOE laitc1175 semblanta1225 sightc1275 fare1297 showingc1300 specea1325 parelc1330 guise1340 countenance1362 semblance?a1366 apparel1377 regardc1380 apparencec1384 imagec1384 spicec1384 overseeminga1398 kenninga1400 seemingc1400 visage1422 rinda1450 semenauntc1450 'pearance1456 outwardc1475 representation1489 favour?a1500 figurea1522 assemblant1523 prospect?1533 respect1535 visure1545 perceiverance1546 outwardshine1549 view1556 species1559 utter-shape1566 look1567 physiognomy1567 face1572 paintry1573 visor1575 mienc1586 superficies?1589 behaviour1590 aspect1594 complexion1597 confrontment1604 show1604 aira1616 beseeminga1616 formality1615 resemblancea1616 blush1620 upcomea1630 presentment1637 scheme1655 sensation1662 visibility1669 plumage1707 facies1727 remark1748 extrinsica1797 exterior1801 showance1820 the cut of one's jib1823 personnel1839 personal appearance1842 what-like1853 look-see1898 outwall1933 visuality1938 prosopon1947 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24086 Vnethes i his kenning kneu. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > sight of something > [noun] looka1200 sight?c1225 visc1340 visea1450 respection?a1475 viewa1500 prospection?1530 kenningc1540 conspect1548 ken1594 spectacle1625 styme1776 perception1817 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2837 Nawther company..hade Kennyng of other, But past to þere purpos. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 490/1 in Chron. I There arriued in their sight a nauie of Shippes, which at the first kenning, they tooke to be french Shippes. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. H His ships were past a kenning from the shore. 1598 R. Tofte Alba i. sig. Cv He is in kenning of his wished Home. 1599 J. Lok in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 102 We had also kenning of another Iland called Lissa. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. xxiv. 515 Againe, at a kenning we cannot see of the earth aboue ten or twelue leagues. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 5 The passage from thence was thought a broad sound within the maine, being without kenning of land. a1697 Strathspey in Aubrey's Misc. (1721) 203 The Lady Gareloch was going somewhere from her House within kenning to the Road which Clunie was coming. a. Range of sight: = ken n.1 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of eyeOE sightc1175 eyesightc1225 kenning1530 view1553 reach1579 kena1592 sight-shot1663 command1697 field1721 eye scope1853 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 431 I am within syght, as a shyppe is that cometh within the kennyng. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 15 Not dreaming that her loue in kenning were. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 61 Without your kenning lyeth Sardinia fast vpon the Africke sea. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of > distance bounding kenning1478 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > distance that bounds the range of vision kenning1478 ken1545 1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 108 Per distanciam latitudinis le Narowsee..v kennyngys et quilibet kennyng continet..21 miliaria. c1500 Melusine (1895) 104 He sawe the ship three kennynges ferre on the sea, that is, one & twenty legues ferre. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 7 Scylley is a Kenning, that is to say about an xx. Miles from the very Westeste Pointe of Cornewaulle. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxii. 94 I see Land..'tis within a Kenning. 5. a. Mental cognition; knowledge, cognizance; recognition. Now Scottish and northern dialect. †fleshly kenning, carnal knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] i-witnessc888 knowledging?c1225 wittinga1300 beknowing1340 sciencec1350 bekenningc1380 knowinga1398 knowledgea1398 meaninga1398 cunningshipa1400 feela1400 understanda1400 cognizancec1400 kenningc1400 witc1400 recognizancec1436 cognition1447 recognitionc1450 cognoscencec1540 conscience1570 comprehension1597 comprehense1604 cognizant1634 sciency1642 scibility1677 c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 64 Þy seluyn hadde takyn deed, þurgh þe hete of fleschly kennynge with here. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 271/2 Kennynge, or knowynge,..cognicio, agnicio. 17.. in Burns' Wks. (Rtldg.) Life 45 I crept quietly owre the bed, out o' his kennin, and kneeled down beside him. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Kennin, knowing. ‘Ye're seea feafully waxen, at ye're past kennen.’ b. A recognizable portion; just enough to be perceived; a little. Scottish and northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount speckc725 littleOE somethingc1200 lutewihtc1230 little whatc1384 ouncec1387 lap1393 smalla1400 modicumc1400 nekedc1400 spota1413 tinec1420 nieveful?a1425 handfulc1443 mouthful?c1450 smatchc1456 weec1480 quern1503 halfpennyworth1533 groatsworth1562 dram1566 shellful1578 trickle1580 snatch1592 sprinkling1594 fleck1598 snip1598 pittance1600 lick1603 fingerful1604 modicum1606 thimbleful1607 flash1614 dasha1616 pipa1616 pickle1629 drachm1635 cue1654 smack1693 starn1720 bit1753 kenning1787 minikin1787 tate1805 starnie1808 sprat1815 harl1821 skerrick1825 smallums1828 huckleberry1832 scrimp1840 thimble1841 smite1843 nattering1859 sensation1859 spurt1859 pauchlea1870 mention1891 sketch1894 sputterings1894 scrappet1901 titch1937 tad1940 skosh1959 smattering1973 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 146 Tho' they may gang a-kennin wrang, To step aside is human. 1805 J. Nicol Poems I. 187 (Jam.) Gif o' this warl, a kennin mair, Some get than me, I've got content. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby That string's just a kenning thicker than the other. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona ix. 103 His father was..a kenning on the wrong side of the law. 6. One of the periphrastic expressions used instead of the simple name of a thing, characteristic of Old Teutonic, and esp. Old Norse, poetry.Examples are oar-steed = ship, storm of swords = battle. The term is adopted from the medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, and is derived from the idiomatic use of kenna við or til, ‘to name after’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > metaphor > kenning kenning1883 1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale II. 448 The extreme development of the ‘kenning’ in Northern Poetry. 1889 A. S. Cook Judith (ed. 2) Introd. 59 A characteristic ornament of Old English, as well as of early Teutonic poetry in general, are the kennings. 1896 Scott. Rev. Oct. 342 (note) The kennings for ‘man’ in Gröndal's Clavis Poetica extend to 33 closely printed columns. CompoundsΚΠ 1603 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1876) III. 238 A Booke Called A kennyng glass for a Christian Kinge. ΚΠ 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 606 It standeth forth as a kenning place to the view of eyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † kenningn.3 Obsolete. rare. The cicatricula or tread of an egg. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > yolk > tread strainc1305 cock treading1573 kenning1585 tread1593 cock's tread1647 gallature1650 treadle1658 cicatricula1664 strind1671 gemma1692 chalaza1704 segmentation cavity1888 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Ovi umbilicus, the streine or kenning of the egge. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 298 There is found in the top or sharper end of an egge within the shell, a certaine round knot resembling a drop or a nauil, rising aboue the rest, which they call a Kinning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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