December 26th, 2006 at 4: 15 pm kenspeckle » search, wikified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikia To Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot] Reference

It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Now he felt kenspeckle, not in any suit of material clothes but in a droll sense of nakedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

'Up wi' him! 'cried Madge wi' the Fiery Face, who had just been loosed from the 'jougs,' wherein she had been confined for 'kenspeckle incontinence.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

But later, old Morrison was heard to remark that yon young Solomon had a heid on his shoothers, richt enough, a kenspeckle lad - no 'like some that sauntered and drank awa' their time, an 'sponged off their betters, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman's Lady]

I have left him in the upper cleugh, as he is somewhat kenspeckle, 27 and is marked both with cut and birn — the sooner the skin is off, and he is in saultfat, the less like you are to have trouble — you understand me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Through the throng of bearded sailors we strode and made our way to the kitchen of the Quay Inn. A place sacred to kenspeckle folk it was, and from its smoke-stained rafters hung many pieces of bacon and dried shallots, and there were also bunches of centaury, and camomile, and dandelion root, and bogbean, for the goodman's wife was cunning in medicines of the older-fashioned sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

'Ay,' said George, 'this is no place to be ower kenspeckle.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

Red Donald brought with him a hundred claymores and he wasna half so kenspeckle (conspicuous).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

His dress was a little in the Pagan style, and rendered him kenspeckle to the eye of observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

My phiz is sae kenspeckle, that the very joiner's apprentice, whom Mrs. Burns employed to break up the parcel (I was out of town that day) knew it at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

The immediate front of a battle is a bit too public for anyone to lie hidden in by day, especially when two or three feet of snow make everything kenspeckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

"But now, sir, now that your bonds are cut, I see nothing better for you than a well - washed face, for, indeed, you are by ordinary 'kenspeckle,' and no company for maids.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monk of Fife] Reference

A kenspeckle figure in Scottish business circles is making a return, as an adviser to George Osborne and the Conservative Party in its plans to reform the banks. sign in to contribute to this page.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Blog Network] Reference

The cathedral singers came at last, and that kenspeckle red head of Will Harewood's directed her to the less conspicuous locks belonging to Lance, whose own clear thrush-like note she could catch as he passed beneath the screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference

It must be told further that there was no house within ten miles either up or down the water on that side, save the little cot abovesaid nigher to the mountains, and that was four miles up-stream; it hight Burcot, and was somewhat kenspeckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sundering Flood] Reference

With these changes she had little, as she said, to make ` ` her kenspeckle when she didna speak, '' but her accent and language drew down on her so many jests and gibes, couched in a worse patois by far than her own, that she soon found it was her interest to talk as little and as seldom as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

The thing was as plain as the loof of my hand; for, besides great suspicion, what was more, was the finding the head of the muffed hen, to which I could have sworn, lying in a bye-corner; the body itself not being so kenspeckle in its disjasket state -- as it hung twirling in a string by its legs before the fire, all buttered over with swine's seam, and half roasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

She is my mother, if she was waur than the deil, and she'll be nae mair kenspeckle than half-hangit Maggie Dickson, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

“her kenspeckle when she didna speak,” but her accent and language drew down on her so many jests and gibes, couched in a worse patois by far than her own, that she soon found it was her interest to talk as little and as seldom as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

Or your kenspeckle from your rammy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns 250th Anniversary Quiz] Reference

It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of Cannobie -- I would swear to the curve of the caulker. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Gothamist kenspeckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

"Naething kenspeckle," said he; "plain, dacent claes.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference