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Cabinet :: Cabinet (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself..

Excubation :: Excubation (n.) A keeping watch.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend..

Storage :: Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse..

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted..

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

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

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..

Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

Keep :: Keep (n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.

Press :: Press (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press..

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping..

Record :: Record (v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law..

Pigeonhole :: Pigeonhole (n.) A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote..

Footman :: Footman (n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire..

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

Muffineer :: Muffineer (n.) A dish for keeping muffins hot.

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