Definition of keeping

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Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..

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Reservative :: Reservative (a.) Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
Stale :: Stale (v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use..
Timely :: Timely (superl.) Keeping time or measure.
Bawn :: Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure..
Journalism :: Journalism (n.) The keeping of a journal or diary.
Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (n.) A staying at home.
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..
Skewer :: Skewer (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting..
Custody :: Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
Storehouse :: Storehouse (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse..
Temple :: Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
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..
Stabling :: Stabling (n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Ward-corn :: Ward-corn (n.) The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise..
Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted..
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.
Confide :: Confide (v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.
Thallium :: Thallium (n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7..
Skippet :: Skippet (n.) A small round box for keeping records.
Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto..
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