Definition of keep

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Keep (v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.

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Crumbcloth :: Crumbcloth (n.) A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean..
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
Cimeliarch :: Cimeliarch (n.) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
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..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..
Assober :: Assober (v. t.) To make or keep sober.
Temple :: Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Bursar :: Bursar (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..
Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
Over :: Over (prep.) Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter..
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) A house dog.
Heart :: Heart (n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood..
Supply :: Supply (v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition..
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day..
Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security..
Retain :: Retain (v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
Bawn :: Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure..
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