Definition of keeping

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Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping..

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Folio :: Folio (n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number..
Look :: Look (v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below..
Exercise :: Exercise (n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback..
Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.
Storehouse :: Storehouse (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse..
Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..
Baby Farming :: Baby farming () The business of keeping a baby farm.
Comb :: Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place..
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..
Livery :: Livery (n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.
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..
Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..
Sour :: Sour (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned..
Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Bestow :: Bestow (v. t.) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
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..
Keeping :: Keeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kee.
Home-dwelling :: Home-dwelling (a.) Keeping at home.
Dossil :: Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent..
Cycloid :: Cycloid (n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane..
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