Definition of keep

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Keep (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach..

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Ballast :: Ballast (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally..
Chain :: Chain (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
Backward :: Backward (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.
Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders..
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc..
Refrigerator :: Refrigerator (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice..
Keep :: Keep (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse..
Show :: Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers)..
Water Furrow :: Water furrow () A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry..
Meditate :: Meditate (v. t.) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon; to study.
Bordeller :: Bordeller (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Assober :: Assober (v. t.) To make or keep sober.
Groundling :: Groundling (n.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach..
Fosseway :: Fosseway (n.) One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
Work :: Work (v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine..
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Curator :: Curator (n.) One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper..
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