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Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..

Bourgeois :: Bourgeois (n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

Tantalize :: Tantalize (v. t.) To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment..

Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..

Hoard :: Hoard (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain..

Tillage :: Tillage (n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops..

Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.

Timely :: Timely (superl.) Keeping time or measure.

Studding :: Studdery (n.) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud..

Outkeeper :: Outkeeper (n.) An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

Orderly :: Orderly (a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.

Bookkeeping :: Bookkeeping (n.) The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger..

Nil :: Nil (n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping..

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

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc..

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.

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

Sour :: Sour (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned..

Apple-john :: Apple-john (n.) A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables..

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