Definition of keeping

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

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Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve..
Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Look :: Look (v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below..
Keeping :: Keeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kee.
Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Press :: Press (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..
Bawn :: Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure..
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..
Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison..
Refrigerator :: Refrigerator (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice..
Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..
Journalism :: Journalism (n.) The keeping of a journal or diary.
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Companionship :: Companionship (n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
Stale :: Stale (v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use..
Sideboard :: Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river..
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