Definition of keep

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Keep (v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc..

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Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..
Lock :: Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
Hostler :: Hostler (n.) An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Dealer :: Dealer (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer..
Isochronon :: Isochronon (n.) A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time.
Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.
Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Cofferer :: Cofferer (n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
Custos :: Custos (n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
Intubation :: Intubation (n.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup..
Barrier :: Barrier (n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd..
Margrave :: Margrave (n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany..
Intern :: Intern (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country..
Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
Insectary :: Insectary (n.) A place for keeping living insects.
Bottle :: Bottle (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath..
Keep :: Keep (n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
Safe :: Safe (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
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