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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Ken-speckled, a. [Also mod. north. Eng. dial. as kenspeckled, -speckl't, -spreckled (and cf. also mod. Yorks. dial. kensmarked). Cf. Kenspecke,a. and Kenspekill,a.] Conspicuous, prominent. — 1684 Wodrow Hist. (1722) II. App. 128.
So notorious a man as Mr. Brown who … Cesnock could not but hear that he was in the rebellion, being the ken-speckled man in it
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