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Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Journalist :: Journalist (n.) One who keeps a journal or diary.

Bordeller :: Bordeller (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.

Strict :: Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention..

Nab :: Nab (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot..

Hoard :: Hoard (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain..

Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Storax :: Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Keeping :: Keeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kee.

Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..

Custodian :: Custodian (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent..

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.

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters..

Metonymy :: Metonymy (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections..

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..

Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.

Gobemouche :: Gobemouche (n.) Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person..

Fiddle :: Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

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

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