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. Ibid., 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.
