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Keep
KEEP, v.t. pret. and pp. kept. [L. habeo, and capio.]
1. To hold; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose or part with; as, to keep a house or a farm; to keep any thing in the memory, mind or heart.
2. To have in custody for security or preservation.
The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary,was always kept in the castle of Vicegrade.
3. To preserve; to retain.
The Lord God, merciful and gracious, keeping mercy for thousands--Exo 34.
4. To preserve from falling or from danger; to protect; to guard or sustain.
And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. Gen 28.
Luke 4.
5. To hold or restrain from departure; to detain.
--That I may know what keeps me here with you.
6. To tend; to have the care of.
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen 2.
7. To tend; to feed; to pasture; as, to keep a flock of sheep or a herd of cattle in a yard or in a field. He keeps his horses on oats or on hay.
8. To preserve in any tenor or state. Keep a stiff rein.
Keep the constitution sound.
9. To regard; to attend to.
While the stars and course of heaven I keep--
10. To hold in any state; as, to keep in order.
11. To continue any state, course or action; as, to keep silence; to keep the same road or the same pace; to keep reading or talking; to keep a given distance.
12. To practice; to do or perform; to obey; to observe in practice; not to neglect or violate; as, to keep the laws, statutes or commandments of God.
13. To fulfill; to perform; as, to keep one's word,promise or covenant.
14. To practice; to use habitually; as, to keep bad hours.
15. To copy carefully.
Her servant's eyes were fix'd upon her face,
And as she moved or turned,her motions viewed,
Her measures kept, and step by step pursued.
16. To observe or solemnize.
17. To board; to maintain; to supply with necessaries of life. The men are kept at a moderate price per week.
18. To have in the house; to entertain; as, to keep lodgers.
19. To maintain; not to intermit; as, to keep watch or guard.
20. To hold in one's own bosom; to confine to one's own knowledge; not to disclose or communicate to others; not to betray; as, to keep a secret; to keep one's own counsel.
21. To have in pay; as, to keep a servant.
To keep back, to reserve; to withhold; not to disclose or communicate.
I will keep nothing back from you. Jer 42.
1. To restrain;; to prevent from advancing.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Psa 19.
2. To reserve; to withhold; not to deliver. Acts 5.
To keep company with, to frequent the society of; to associate with. Let youth keep company with the wise and good.
To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with one on a journey or voyage.
To keep down, to prevent from rising; not to lift or suffer to be raised.
To keep in, to prevent from escape; to hold in confinement.
1. To conceal; not to tell or disclose.
2. To restrain; to curb.
To keep off, to hinder from approach or attack; as, to keep off an enemy or an evil.
To keep under, to restrain; to hold in subjection; as, to keep under an antagonist or a conquered country; to keep under the appetites and passions.
To keep up, to maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution; as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's credit.
1. To maintain; to continue; to hinder from ceasing.
In joy, that which keeps up the action is the desire to continue it.keep out, to hinder from entering or taking possession.
To keep bed, to remain in bed without rising; to be confined to one's bed.
To keep house, to maintain a family state.
His income enables him to keep house.
1. To remain in the house; to be confined.
His feeble health obliges him to keep house.
To keep from, to restrain; to prevent approach.
To keep a school, to maintain or support it; as, the town or its inhabitants keep ten schools; more properly, to govern and instruct or teach a school, as a preceptor.
KEEP, v.i. To remain in any state; 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 of reach.
1. To last; to endure; not to perish or be impaired. Seek for winter's use apples that will keep.
If the malt is not thoroughly dried,the ale it makes will not keep.
2. To lodge; to dwell; to reside for a time.
Knock at the study, where, they say, he keeps.
To keep to, to adhere strictly; not to neglect or deviate from; as, to keep to old customs; to keep to a rule; to keep to one's word or promise.
To keep on, to go forward; to proceed; to continue to advance.
To keep up, to remain unsubdued; or not to be confined to one's bed.
In popular language, this word signifies to continue; to repeat continually; not to cease.
KEEP, n. Custody; guard. [Little used.]
1. Colloquially, case; condition; as in good keep.
2. Guardianship; restraint. [Little used.]
3. A place of confinement; in old castles,the dungeon.
keep appears in definitions for these words:
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Abstain Accountant Accursed Acorn Ale-house-keeper Ale-wife Alienee Alive Almoner Aloof Ambry Anchor Anxiety Apophthegm Apothecary Apply Apron Archivist Armory Assober Associate Astringer Avert Aviary Avoid Avoiding Back Balance Ballast Ballasting Banker Bawd Bawn Bay Bear Bearward Becalm Becalming Bedstaff Bee-flower Behold Beholden Bestor Bewake Bill Bird Bird-cage Board-wages Body Book-keeping Bookishness Boom Bordel Bosom Bow Bowline Brace Break Breathe Bring Buckram Buoyrope Bureau Burras-pipe Busy Cabinet Caddy Calk Campain Canonical Cap Carriage Carry Cash-keeper Cauf Cauponate Celebrate Cellarer Cellarist Chain Chancellor Check Cherub Church-warden Circle Clamp Claviger Clerk Clog Close Close-tongued Clout Coal-house Coerce Coffee-man Coffer Comb Command Commissary Communication Companion Company Compass Compress Conceal Concealing Concealment Conclusion Confide Conge Conservation Conservatory Conserve Conserver Conserving Consigned Consort Constable Contemplation Continuator Controll Controller Conversant Conversation Converse Coop Corruption Counsel Counsel-keeper Counsel-keeping Countenance Counter Counting-house Counting-room Cow-keeper Creeper Crier Crow-foot Curb Custody Custos Dare Dark Day Deforce Deforciant Deforcing Demain Deposit Depositary Detain Detainer Detention Devotion Diarist Diligence Diligently Discretion Disembodied Dismiss Distance Divide Division Doer Drabbing Drive Due Dwarf Employ Employer Employing Entertain Entertaining Entrance Equilibrate Equilibration Estrange Estrangement Estranging Eunuch Exact Exercise Expel Fain Fair Fancy Fee-tail Feed Feel Fend Fending Feriation Ferryman Feuterer Field File Filler Fin Fine Flee Folding Follow Fool Footmantle Force Frankchase Fret Full Fur Galoche Gaoler Garrison Goloe-shoe Good Govern Greenbroom Groundling Guard Gunner Guy Habitation Hand Handfast Hang Hard Hayward Heart Heater Herd Herdgroom Herdman Hide Hiding Hoarder Hogherd Hold Holding Horse Horse-keeper Horsecourser Hostess Hour Housage House Householder Housekeeper Houseline Hug Hush Idiotism Idol In Incline Indeed Indiction Innholder Innkeeper Insteep Integral Inviolableness Jailer Jog Kedge Keep Keeper Keepership Keeping Kennel Kept Lay Librarian License Lift Live Livery Lodge Lodgment Lose Low Lurk Lurker Lurking Luscious Lush Maintain Make Mansion Margrave Market Mauger Measure Memorial Meterologist Method Metonymy Ministerial Mistress Mittimus Moderate Moderation Moral Morally Murage Mystagogue Naphtha Neat Nick Niter Novel Obmutescence Observance Observe Observer Observing Obtain Occupation Occupy Occupying Offend One Open Order Out Outparamour Over Pace Parallel Parker Part Path Patten Peace Perseverance Pesade Phial Pinner Pledge Pledget Plight Ply Policy Portfolio Possession Postmaster Preservation Preservative Preserve Preserving President Press Presumption Profess Propulsation Publican Pullback Pyx Quarter Quickness Rag Raise Rangership Ranging Rather Recognizance Recorder Refrain Regard Registrar Remainder Remember Remembrance Repulsive Reseize Reservation Reservative Reserve Reserving Residentiary Resolved Restrain Retain Retainer Retaining Retention Rowel Running-fight Rust Sabbatarian Safe-keeping Safely School Scot Scrupulosity Seal Sealing Sebaceous Seclude Secrecy Secret Secretness Security See Seeming Sentry Sequestrator Servant Serve Sever Severally Shed Shedding Sheer Sherif Shop Shopbook Shrewish Shun Shunning Shy Silence Silentiary Sit Skewer Slipper Slumber Sole Soul Spatterdashes Speculm Stable Stabling Stake-head Stall Stand Start State Stay Stays Steddy Steep Steward Storage Store-house Store-keeper Stove Strict Student Sufferance Summer Support Suppress Suspension Sustain Swineherd Table Taint Take Tale Tally Tallyman Tantalize Tavern-keeper Tavern-man Tenacity Tent Thatching Therein Thole Thought Tight Tillage Tiller Time Time-keeper Timeist Timely To Torture Toss Touch Town Traverse-board Treasury Truss Truth Tumbril Tune Tung Turn Turnpike Tye Umbratic Unassailed Under Underkeeper Uphold Verderer Vestry-clerk Victualer Visit Vivary Wad Waft Wake Wane Ward Warden Warder Warehoused Warehousing Warp Warrant Warren Warrener Waspish Watch Water-furrow Way Wet Whiffle Whole Winter-apple Winter-pear Wintering Wire-grate Withhold Within Wood-lock Word
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