Definition of keep

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Keep (n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.

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Consort :: Consort (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
Tallier :: Tallier (n.) One who keeps tally.
Secretive :: Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping..
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard..
Undisclose :: Undisclose (v. t.) To keep close or secret.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
Gamekeeper :: Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece..
Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Reticence :: Reticence (n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness..
Supply :: Supply (v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition..
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who keeps or stays much at home.
Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..
Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment..
Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch..
Preserve :: Preserve (v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect..
Fee :: Fee (v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe..
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