Definition of keep

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Keep (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.

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Deforciant :: Deforciant (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
Keepsake :: Keepsake (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship..
Bookkeeper :: Bookkeeper (n.) One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.
Purser :: Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc..
Marker :: Marker (n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards..
Timist :: Timist (n.) A performer who keeps good time.
Spare :: Spare (a.) To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.
Chain :: Chain (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
Twitch :: Twitch (n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation..
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.
Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..
Shield :: Shield (n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.
Secretive :: Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition..
Brail :: Brail (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
Custos :: Custos (n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
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..
Bridge-ward :: Bridge-ward (n.) A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
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