Definition of keep

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Keep (v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.

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Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Hallow :: Hallow (v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..
Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..
Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another..
Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (n.) A staying at home.
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
Miskeep :: Miskeep (v. t.) To keep wrongly.
Anxiety :: Anxiety (n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness..
Smudge :: Smudge (n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects..
Mahout :: Mahout (n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.
Panter :: Panter (n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
Long-stop :: Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
Timer :: Timer (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc..
Stage :: Stag (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of..
Tidy :: Tidy (superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy..
Stabling :: Stabling (n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren..
Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science..
Stale :: Stale (v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use..
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