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·noun Tenderness of feeling; pity. II. Conscience ·noun Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions;...

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Conscience
That faculty of the mind, or inborn sense of right and wrong, by which we judge of the moral charact...

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conscience
Reason, reasonableness. A common use of the word in familiar language, even in the best Society as, ...

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Keeper
·noun One who remains or keeps in a place or position. II. Keeper ·noun A fruit that keeps well; as...

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Door-keeper
This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., "stand at the threshold of," etc.), but there it signifi...

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book-keeper
One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out ...

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hut-keeper
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shanty-keeper
n. keeper of a sly-grog shop. 1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for Mail,' p. 45: «Mrs. Smith was a...

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stock-keeper
n. equivalent to a shepherd,or herdsman. 1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government Notice,' June 30, 1...

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boat-keeper
One of the boat's crew who remains in charge of her during the absence of the others. In small vesse...

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ship-keeper
An officer not much given to going on shore. Also, the man who has charge of a ship whilst she is wi...

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store-keeper
An officer in the royal dockyards, invested with the general charge of naval stores, as the sails, a...

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time-keeper
, chronometer An instrument adapted for measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and e...

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