Definition of keep

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Keep (v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store..

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Clerk :: Clerk (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk..
Wintergreen :: Wintergreen (n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
Keeper :: Keeper (n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything..
Occupation :: Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret..
Hug :: Hug (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind..
Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold..
Phial :: Phial (v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial..
Bartender :: Bartender (n.) A barkeeper.
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..
Elong :: Elong (v. t.) To put away; to separate; to keep off.
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A housewife or housekeeper.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession..
Innkeeper :: Innkeeper (n.) An innholder.
Burghbrech :: Burghbrech (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
Jailer :: Jailer (n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.
Ostiary :: Ostiary (n.) One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter..
Account :: Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank..
Nab :: Nab (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot..
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