keene

keene (comparative more keene, superlative most keene)

1. Obsolete form of keen.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act III, scene ii, page 268, column 2:

     Ophe[lia] You are keene my Lord, you are keene. / Ham[let] It would coſt you a groaning, to take off my edge.

keene

1. feminine/plural of keen

• IPA^(key): [keːne]

keene

1. contrastive particle

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “keene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

keene

1. Alternative form of keeine

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 49