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Failure :: Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise..

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..

Cozy :: Cozy (a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

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..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (a.) Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities..

Ward :: Ward (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..

Lock :: Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

Kennel :: Kennel (v. t.) To put or keep in a kennel.

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..

Rounding :: Rounding (n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service..

Separate :: Separate (v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa..

Apron :: Apron (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings..

Seclude :: Seclude (v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.

Pikeman :: Pikeman (n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.

Scotale :: Scotale (n.) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure..

Storage :: Storage (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.

Keeper :: Keeper (n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper..

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