Definition of keep

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Keep (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.

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Keeper :: Keeper (n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
Truss :: Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
Preservation :: Preservation (n.) The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc..
Tallyman :: Tallyman (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks..
Shun :: Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice..
Truss :: Truss (n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes..
Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Livery :: Livery (n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Margrave :: Margrave (n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany..
Levee :: Levee (v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river..
Traiteur :: Traiteur (n.) The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur..
Timist :: Timist (n.) A performer who keeps good time.
Pesade :: Pesade (n.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing..
Livery :: Livery (n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.
Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river..
Shoppish :: Shoppish (a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman..
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