Definition of keeping

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Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

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Storax :: Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Team :: Team (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto..
Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
Refrigerator :: Refrigerator (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice..
Comb :: Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place..
Bell Jar :: Bell jar () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view..
Companionship :: Companionship (n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
Bookkeeper :: Bookkeeper (n.) One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..
Confide :: Confide (v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.
Consort :: Consort (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
Storage :: Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse..
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren..
Ward-corn :: Ward-corn (n.) The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise..
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..
Bawn :: Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure..
Pheasantry :: Pheasantry (n.) A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal..
Safe :: Safe (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
Economy :: Economy (n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony..
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