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Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc..

Vivarium :: Vivarium (n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc..

Lurk :: Lurk (v. i.) To keep out of sight.

Balance :: Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope..

Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc..

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve..

Converse :: Converse (v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

Reticence :: Reticence (n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness..

Back :: Back (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:.

Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..

Bourgeois :: Bourgeois (n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

Matron :: Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital..

Bridge-ward :: Bridge-ward (n.) A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.

Home-dwelling :: Home-dwelling (a.) Keeping at home.

Gamekeeper :: Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve..

Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise..

Equilibrate :: Equilibrate (v. t.) To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise..

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