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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Countingroom :: Countingroom (v.) The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business..
Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..
Volume :: Volume (n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients..
Registrar :: Registrar (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3..
Yarwhip :: Yarwhip (n.) The European bar-tailed godwit; -- called also yardkeep, and yarwhelp. See Godwit..
Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..
Gamekeeper :: Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve..
Press :: Press (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press..
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
Wallet :: Wallet (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
Bestow :: Bestow (v. t.) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
Shoppish :: Shoppish (a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman..
Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom..
Souvenir :: Souvenir (n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Timist :: Timist (n.) A performer who keeps good time.
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..
Hallow :: Hallow (v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
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