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Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (a.) Staying at home; not gadding.

Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (n.) A staying at home.

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..

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

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..

Water Furrow :: Water furrow () A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry..

Skippet :: Skippet (n.) A small round box for keeping records.

Temple :: Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Housage :: Housage (n.) A fee for keeping goods in a house.

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

Flabellation :: Flabellation (n.) The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

Livery :: Livery (n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.

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..

Cure :: Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay..

Brat :: Brat (n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.

Thallium :: Thallium (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7..

Custody :: Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Preservation :: Preservation (n.) The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation..

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..

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