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• Keep

  ·vt To have habitually in stock for sale. II. Keep ·noun That which is kept in charge; a charge. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to keep

  To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• keep

  Food; subsistence; keeping. In a letter to his brother, Bishop Heber, speaking of Bishops' College c...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep

  A strong donjon or tower in the middle of a castle, usually the last resort of its garrison in a sie...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hut-keep

  v. to act as hut-keeper. 1865. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,' p. 380 «At this, as well...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• stock-keep

  v. a quaint compound verb. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. x. p. 96(1890): «`What ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to keep company

  To court. A common term in the interior parts of New England, applied to a man whose visits to a lad...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep off

  To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.) ...

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• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep her own

  Not to fall off; not driven back by tide. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• keep your luff

  An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• keep the land aboard

  Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit. ...

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• to keep a stiff upper lip

  is to continue firm, unmoved. My friend, said he, don't cry for spilt milk; keep a stiff upper lip;...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep the pot a boiling

  i. e. Don't let the game flag. A common expression among young people, when they are anxious to carr...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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