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Depository :: Depository (n.) A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records..

Watch :: Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

Silent :: Silent (a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent..

Vivarium :: Vivarium (n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc..

Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..

Flabellation :: Flabellation (n.) The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

Dock :: Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide..

Comb :: Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place..

Bail :: Bail (n.) Custody; keeping.

Custody :: Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.

Storehouse :: Storehouse (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse..

Apple-john :: Apple-john (n.) A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.

Recording :: Recording (a.) Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph..

Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..

Seclusive :: Seclusive (a.) Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc..

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

Seraglio :: Seraglio (n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery..

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