take aback
         v 1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
               when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: {shock}, {floor},
               {ball over}, {blow out of the water}, {take aback}]

English Dictionary: take office	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take back v bring back to the point of departure [syn: return, {take back}, bring back] regain possession of something Synonym(s): take back, repossess resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband move text to the previous line; in printing take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" Synonym(s): swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw cause someone to remember the past; "This photo takes me back to the good old days"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take effect v go into effect or become effective or operative; "The new law will take effect next month"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take office v assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?" Antonym(s): leave office, quit, resign, step down
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
takeoff booster n the first stage of a multistage rocket [syn: booster, booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket]
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tau coefficient of correlation n a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings Synonym(s): tau coefficient of correlation, Kendall's tau, Kendall rank correlation
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tax base n collective value of taxable assets
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tax boost n the amount by which taxes are increased; "a tax increase of 15 percent" Synonym(s): tax-increase, tax boost, tax hike
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tax evasion n the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report)
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Taxopsida n yews: in some systems classified as a class (Taxopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Taxophytina) used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta Synonym(s): Taxopsida, class Taxopsida, Taxophytina, subdivision Taxophytina
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tayassu pecari n blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary Synonym(s): white-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theosophical adj of or relating to theosophy; "theosophical writings"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theosophism n belief in theosophy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theosophist n a believer in theosophy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Thespesia n a small genus of tropical trees including the portia tree Synonym(s): Thespesia, genus Thespesia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Thespesia populnea n pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds Synonym(s): portia tree, bendy tree, seaside mahoe, Thespesia populnea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Thespis n Greek poet who is said to have originated Greek tragedy (sixth century BC)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Thujopsis n one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja [syn: Thujopsis, genus Thujopsis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Thujopsis dolobrata n slow-growing medium-large Japanese evergreen used as an ornamental Synonym(s): hiba arborvitae, Thujopsis dolobrata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toss back v throw back with a quick, light motion; "She tossed back her head" Synonym(s): throw back, toss back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touch base v establish communication with someone; "did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?" Synonym(s): get in touch, touch base, connect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touchback n (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone
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tuck box n a box for storing eatables (especially at boarding school)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twice-baked bread n slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp Synonym(s): zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Acrogen \Ac"ro*gen\, n. [Gr. [?] extreme, high + -gen.] Acrogen    \Ac"ro*gen\, n. [Gr. 'a`kros extreme, high + -gen.] (Bot.)       A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the       ferns, etc. See {Cryptogamia}.          {The Age of Acrogens} (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the             carboniferous era.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
The gapes \The gapes\             (a) A fit of yawning.             (b) A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended                   with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode                   worm ({Syngamus trachealis}), in the windpipe, which                   obstructs the breathing. See {Gapeworm}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophic \The`o*soph"ic\, Theosophical \The`o*soph"ic*al\, a.       [Cf. F. th[82]osophique.]       Of or pertaining to theosophy. -- {The`o*soph"ic*al*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophic \The`o*soph"ic\, Theosophical \The`o*soph"ic*al\, a.       [Cf. F. th[82]osophique.]       Of or pertaining to theosophy. -- {The`o*soph"ic*al*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophic \The`o*soph"ic\, Theosophical \The`o*soph"ic*al\, a.       [Cf. F. th[82]osophique.]       Of or pertaining to theosophy. -- {The`o*soph"ic*al*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophism \The*os"o*phism\, n. [Cf. F. th[82]osophisme.]       Belief in theosophy. --Murdock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophist \The*os"o*phist\, n.       One addicted to theosophy.                   The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God,                or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an                inspiration of his own, for its basis.   --R. A.                                                                               Vaughan.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophistical \The*os`o*phis"tic*al\, a.       Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophize \The*os"o*phize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.       {Theosophized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Theosophizing}.]       To practice theosophy. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophize \The*os"o*phize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.       {Theosophized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Theosophizing}.]       To practice theosophy. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theosophize \The*os"o*phize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.       {Theosophized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Theosophizing}.]       To practice theosophy. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\ (s[amac]), n. [Aphetic form of assay.]       1. Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. [Obs.]                         If those principal works of God . . . be but certain                      tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit.                                                                               --Hooker.                         Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. --Shak.          2. Tried quality; temper; proof. [Obs.]                         He found a sword of better say.         --Spenser.          3. Essay; trial; attempt. [Obs.]          {To give a say at}, to attempt. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Give \Give\ (g[icr]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[amac]v); p. p.       {Given} (g[icr]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given,       yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS.       ge[edh]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan.       give, Goth. giban. Cf. {Gift}, n.]       1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without             compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as             authority or permission; to yield up or allow.                         For generous lords had rather give than pay.                                                                               --Young.          2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in             exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of             what we buy.                         What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?                                                                               --Matt. xvi.                                                                               26.          3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and             steel give sparks.          4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to             pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment,             a sentence, a shout, etc.          5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to             license; to commission.                         It is given me once again to behold my friend.                                                                               --Rowe.                         Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.                                                                               --Pope.          6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show;             as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships,             gives four hundred to each ship.          7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply             one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder;             also in this sense used very frequently in the past             participle; as, the people are given to luxury and             pleasure; the youth is given to study.          8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a             known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; --             used principally in the passive form given.          9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.                         I give not heaven for lost.               --Mlton.          10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.                         I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a                      lover.                                             --Sheridan.          11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give             offense; to give pleasure or pain.          12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.          13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give             one to understand, to know, etc.                         But there the duke was given to understand That in                      a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his                      amorous Jessica.                              --Shak.          {To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer.                         Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our                      lives, is given away from ourselves.   --Atterbury.          {To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.          {To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.]                         I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.          {To give birth to}.             (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child.             (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise,                   idea.          {To give chase}, to pursue.          {To give ear to}. See under {Ear}.          {To give forth}, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.          {To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n.          {To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith.          {To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.          {To give the head}. See under {Head}, n.          {To give in}.             (a) To abate; to deduct.             (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender;                   as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.          {To give the lie to} (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.                      {To give line}. See under {Line}.          {To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.          {To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender             of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's             purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]          {To give out}.             (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.                               One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.                                                                               --Shak.                               Give out you are of Epidamnum.   --Shak.             (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance                   gives out steam or odors.          {To give over}.             (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.             (b) To despair of.             (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).                               The Babylonians had given themselves over to                            all manner of vice.                     --Grew.          {To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.          {To give points}.             (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a                   certain advantage; to allow a handicap.             (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]          {To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n.          {To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}.          {To give and take}.             (a) To average gains and losses.             (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.          {To give time}             (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor.                      --Abbott.          {To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment             appropriate to the hour, as [bd]good morning.[b8] [bd]good             evening[b8], etc.          {To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of             dogs.          {To give up}.             (a) To abandon; to surrender. [bd]Don't give up the                   ship.[b8]                               He has . . . given up For certain drops of                            salt, your city Rome.                  --Shak.             (b) To make public; to reveal.                               I'll not state them By giving up their                            characters.                                 --Beau. & Fl.             (c) (Used also reflexively.)          {To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}.          {To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to             surrender one's self.          {To give way}.             (a) To withdraw; to give place.             (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding                   gave way.             (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased                   energy.             (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value;                   as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.          {To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke.          Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}.          Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest.                   To confer was originally used of persons in power, who                   gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the                   order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the                   giving of something which might have been withheld;                   as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer                   to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way                   dependent or inferior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Large \Large\, a. [Compar. {Larger}; superl. {Largest}.] [F.,       fr. L. largus. Cf. {Largo}.]       1. Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk,             capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of             constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; --             opposed to {small}; as, a large horse; a large house or             room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large             vineyard; a large army; a large city.          Note: For linear dimensions, and mere extent, great, and not                large, is used as a qualifying word; as, great length,                breadth, depth; a great distance; a great height.          2. Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.                         We hare yet large day.                        --Milton.          3. Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.                         I might be very large upon the importance and                      advantages of education.                     -- Felton.          4. Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad             sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said             of the mind and heart.          5. Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.]                         Of burdens all he set the Paynims large. --Fairfax.          6. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.]             [bd]Some large jests he will make.[b8] --Shak.          7. Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          8. (Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a             favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam,             or between the beam and the quarter.          {At large}.             (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large;                   to be left at large.             (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse                   on a subject at large.          {Common at large}. See under {Common}, n.          {Electors at large}, {Representative at large}, electors, or             a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the             whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to             represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.]          {To give, go, run, [or] sail large} (Naut.), to have the wind             crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way             that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains             its highest speed. See {Large}, a., 8.          Syn: Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample;                abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive;                liberal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Give \Give\ (g[icr]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[amac]v); p. p.       {Given} (g[icr]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given,       yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS.       ge[edh]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan.       give, Goth. giban. Cf. {Gift}, n.]       1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without             compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as             authority or permission; to yield up or allow.                         For generous lords had rather give than pay.                                                                               --Young.          2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in             exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of             what we buy.                         What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?                                                                               --Matt. xvi.                                                                               26.          3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and             steel give sparks.          4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to             pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment,             a sentence, a shout, etc.          5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to             license; to commission.                         It is given me once again to behold my friend.                                                                               --Rowe.                         Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.                                                                               --Pope.          6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show;             as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships,             gives four hundred to each ship.          7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply             one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder;             also in this sense used very frequently in the past             participle; as, the people are given to luxury and             pleasure; the youth is given to study.          8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a             known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; --             used principally in the passive form given.          9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.                         I give not heaven for lost.               --Mlton.          10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.                         I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a                      lover.                                             --Sheridan.          11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give             offense; to give pleasure or pain.          12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.          13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give             one to understand, to know, etc.                         But there the duke was given to understand That in                      a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his                      amorous Jessica.                              --Shak.          {To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer.                         Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our                      lives, is given away from ourselves.   --Atterbury.          {To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.          {To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.]                         I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.          {To give birth to}.             (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child.             (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise,                   idea.          {To give chase}, to pursue.          {To give ear to}. See under {Ear}.          {To give forth}, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.          {To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n.          {To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith.          {To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.          {To give the head}. See under {Head}, n.          {To give in}.             (a) To abate; to deduct.             (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender;                   as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.          {To give the lie to} (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.                      {To give line}. See under {Line}.          {To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.          {To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender             of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's             purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]          {To give out}.             (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.                               One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.                                                                               --Shak.                               Give out you are of Epidamnum.   --Shak.             (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance                   gives out steam or odors.          {To give over}.             (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.             (b) To despair of.             (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).                               The Babylonians had given themselves over to                            all manner of vice.                     --Grew.          {To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.          {To give points}.             (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a                   certain advantage; to allow a handicap.             (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]          {To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n.          {To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}.          {To give and take}.             (a) To average gains and losses.             (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.          {To give time}             (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor.                      --Abbott.          {To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment             appropriate to the hour, as [bd]good morning.[b8] [bd]good             evening[b8], etc.          {To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of             dogs.          {To give up}.             (a) To abandon; to surrender. [bd]Don't give up the                   ship.[b8]                               He has . . . given up For certain drops of                            salt, your city Rome.                  --Shak.             (b) To make public; to reveal.                               I'll not state them By giving up their                            characters.                                 --Beau. & Fl.             (c) (Used also reflexively.)          {To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}.          {To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to             surrender one's self.          {To give way}.             (a) To withdraw; to give place.             (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding                   gave way.             (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased                   energy.             (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value;                   as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.          {To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke.          Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}.          Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest.                   To confer was originally used of persons in power, who                   gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the                   order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the                   giving of something which might have been withheld;                   as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer                   to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way                   dependent or inferior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Ground furze} (Bot.), a low slightly thorny, leguminous             shrub ({Ononis arvensis}) of Europe and Central Asia,; --             called also {rest-harrow}.          {Ground game}, hares, rabbits, etc., as distinguished from             winged game.          {Ground hele} (Bot.), a perennial herb ({Veronica             officinalis}) with small blue flowers, common in Europe             and America, formerly thought to have curative properties.                      {Ground of the heavens} (Astron.), the surface of any part of             the celestial sphere upon which the stars may be regarded             as projected.          {Ground hemlock} (Bot.), the yew ({Taxus baccata} var.             Canadensisi) of eastern North America, distinguished from             that of Europe by its low, straggling stems.          {Ground hog}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The woodchuck or American marmot ({Arctomys monax}).                   See {Woodchuck}.             (b) The aardvark.          {Ground hold} (Naut.), ground tackle. [Obs.] --Spenser.          {Ground ice}, ice formed at the bottom of a body of water             before it forms on the surface.          {Ground ivy}. (Bot.) A trailing plant; alehoof. See {Gill}.                      {Ground joist}, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a.             sleeper.          {Ground lark} (Zo[94]l.), the European pipit. See {Pipit}.          {Ground laurel} (Bot.). See {Trailing arbutus}, under             {Arbutus}.          {Ground line} (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection             of the horizontal and vertical planes of projection.          {Ground liverwort} (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad             flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and             radiated receptacles ({Marchantia polymorpha}).          {Ground mail}, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a             churchyard.          {Ground mass} (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a             rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are             embedded.          {Ground parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), one of several Australian             parrakeets, of the genera {Callipsittacus} and             {Geopsittacus}, which live mainly upon the ground.          {Ground pearl} (Zo[94]l.), an insect of the family             {Coccid[91]} ({Margarodes formicarum}), found in ants'             nests in the Bahamas, and having a shelly covering. They             are strung like beads, and made into necklaces by the             natives.          {Ground pig} (Zo[94]l.), a large, burrowing, African rodent             ({Aulacodus Swinderianus}) about two feet long, allied to             the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no             spines; -- called also {ground rat}.          {Ground pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), one of numerous species of             pigeons which live largely upon the ground, as the             tooth-billed pigeon ({Didunculus strigirostris}), of the             Samoan Islands, and the crowned pigeon, or goura. See             {Goura}, and {Ground dove} (above).          {Ground pine}. (Bot.)             (a) A blue-flowered herb of the genus {Ajuga} ({A.                   Cham[91]pitys}), formerly included in the genus                   {Teucrium} or germander, and named from its resinous                   smell. --Sir J. Hill.             (b) A long, creeping, evergreen plant of the genus                   {Lycopodium} ({L. clavatum}); -- called also {club                   moss}.             (c) A tree-shaped evergreen plant about eight inches in                   height, of the same genus ({L. dendroideum}) found in                   moist, dark woods in the northern part of the United                   States. --Gray.          {Ground plan} (Arch.), a plan of the ground floor of any             building, or of any floor, as distinguished from an             elevation or perpendicular section.          {Ground plane}, the horizontal plane of projection in             perspective drawing.          {Ground plate}.             (a) (Arch.) One of the chief pieces of framing of a                   building; a timber laid horizontally on or near the                   ground to support the uprights; a ground sill or                   groundsel.             (b) (Railroads) A bed plate for sleepers or ties; a                   mudsill.             (c) (Teleg.) A metallic plate buried in the earth to                   conduct the electric current thereto. Connection to                   the pipes of a gas or water main is usual in cities.                   --Knight.          {Ground plot}, the ground upon which any structure is             erected; hence, any basis or foundation; also, a ground             plan.          {Ground plum} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Astragalus             caryocarpus}) occurring from the Saskatchewan to Texas,             and having a succulent plum-shaped pod.          {Ground rat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Ground pig} (above).          {Ground rent}, rent paid for the privilege of building on             another man's land.          {Ground robin}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Chewink}.          {Ground room}, a room on the ground floor; a lower room.             --Tatler.          {Ground sea}, the West Indian name for a swell of the ocean,             which occurs in calm weather and without obvious cause,             breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows; -- called             also {rollers}, and in Jamaica, {the North sea}.          {Ground sill}. See {Ground plate} (a) (above).          {Ground snake} (Zo[94]l.), a small burrowing American snake             ({Celuta am[d2]na}). It is salmon colored, and has a blunt             tail.          {Ground squirrel}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) One of numerous species of burrowing rodents of the                   genera {Tamias} and {Spermophilus}, having cheek                   pouches. The former genus includes the Eastern                   striped squirrel or chipmunk and some allied Western                   species; the latter includes the prairie squirrel or                   striped gopher, the gray gopher, and many allied                   Western species. See {Chipmunk}, and {Gopher}.             (b) Any species of the African genus {Xerus}, allied to                   {Tamias}.          {Ground story}. Same as {Ground floor} (above).          {Ground substance} (Anat.), the intercellular substance, or             matrix, of tissues.          {Ground swell}.             (a) (Bot.) The plant groundsel. [Obs.] --Holland.             (b) A broad, deep swell or undulation of the ocean,                   caused by a long continued gale, and felt even at a                   remote distance after the gale has ceased.          {Ground table}. (Arch.) See Earth table, under Earth.          {Ground tackle} (Naut.), the tackle necessary to secure a             vessel at anchor. --Totten.          {Ground thrush} (Zo[94]l.), one of numerous species of             bright-colored Oriental birds of the family {Pittid[91]}.             See {Pitta}.          {Ground tier}.             (a) The lowest tier of water casks in a vessel's hold.                   --Totten.             (b) The lowest line of articles of any kind stowed in a                   vessel's hold.             (c) The lowest range of boxes in a theater.          {Ground timbers} (Shipbuilding) the timbers which lie on the             keel and are bolted to the keelson; floor timbers.             --Knight.          {Ground tit}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Ground wren} (below).          {Ground wheel}, that wheel of a harvester, mowing machine,             etc., which, rolling on the ground, drives the mechanism.                      {Ground wren} (Zo[94]l.), a small California bird ({Cham[91]a             fasciata}) allied to the wrens and titmice. It inhabits             the arid plains. Called also {ground tit}, and {wren tit}.                      {To bite the ground}, {To break ground}. See under {Bite},             {Break}.          {To come to the ground}, {To fall to the ground}, to come to             nothing; to fail; to miscarry.          {To gain ground}.             (a) To advance; to proceed forward in conflict; as, an                   army in battle gains ground.             (b) To obtain an advantage; to have some success; as, the                   army gains ground on the enemy.             (c) To gain credit; to become more prosperous or                   influential.          {To get, [or] To gather}, {ground}, to gain ground. [R.]             [bd]Evening mist . . . gathers ground fast.[b8] --Milton.                         There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground                      of them, but by bidding higher.         --South.          {To give ground}, to recede; to yield advantage.                         These nine . . . began to give me ground. --Shak.          {To lose ground}, to retire; to retreat; to withdraw from the             position taken; hence, to lose advantage; to lose credit             or reputation; to decline.          {To stand one's ground}, to stand firm; to resist attack or             encroachment. --Atterbury.          {To take the ground} to touch bottom or become stranded; --             said of a ship.
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5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask             to have a guardian appointed for.                         Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.                                                                               --Harrington.             Hence:          {To beg (one) for a fool}, to take him for a fool.          {I beg to}, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to;             as, I beg to inform you.          {To beg the question}, to assume that which was to be proved             in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or             sustaining the point by argument.          {To go a-begging}, a figurative phrase to express the absence             of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price;             as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.          Syn: To {Beg}, {Ask}, {Request}.          Usage: To ask (not in the sense of inquiring) is the generic                   term which embraces all these words. To request is                   only a polite mode of asking. To beg, in its original                   sense, was to ask with earnestness, and implied                   submission, or at least deference. At present,                   however, in polite life, beg has dropped its original                   meaning, and has taken the place of both ask and                   request, on the ground of its expressing more of                   deference and respect. Thus, we beg a person's                   acceptance of a present; we beg him to favor us with                   his company; a tradesman begs to announce the arrival                   of new goods, etc. Crabb remarks that, according to                   present usage, [bd]we can never talk of asking a                   person's acceptance of a thing, or of asking him to do                   us a favor.[b8] This can be more truly said of usage                   in England than in America.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an             act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over             or through.                         By going over all these particulars, you may receive                      some tolerable satisfaction about this great                      subject.                                             --South.          8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.                         The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that                      it may find Good time, and live.         --Shak.          9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence             the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to             depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.                         I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord                      your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.                                                                               --Ex. viii.                                                                               28.          10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to             perish; to decline; to decease; to die.                         By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath                      our master sped.                              --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the             street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New             York.                         His amorous expressions go no further than virtue                      may allow.                                       --Dryden.          12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.          Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and                adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the                preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,                lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go                against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go                astray, etc.          {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,             serious or ironical.          {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired.          {To go about}.             (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to                   undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8]                   --Acts ix. 29.                               They never go about . . . to hide or palliate                            their vices.                              --Swift.             (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.                            {To go abraod}.             (a) To go to a foreign country.             (b) To go out of doors.             (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be                   current.                               Then went this saying abroad among the                            brethren.                                    --John xxi.                                                                               23.          {To go against}.             (a) To march against; to attack.             (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.          {To go ahead}.             (a) To go in advance.             (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.          {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}.          {To go aside}.             (a) To withdraw; to retire.                               He . . . went aside privately into a desert                            place.                                       --Luke. ix.                                                                               10.             (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.          {To go back on}.             (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).             (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.                   S.]          {To go below}             (Naut), to go below deck.          {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a             secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.                      {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}.          {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.          {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried             overboard; as, the mast went by the board.          {To go down}.             (a) To descend.             (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.             (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.             (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.                   [Colloq.]                               Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down                            whole with him for truth.            --L' Estrange.          {To go far}.             (a) To go to a distance.             (b) To have much weight or influence.          {To go for}.             (a) To go in quest of.             (b) To represent; to pass for.             (c) To favor; to advocate.             (d) To attack; to assault. [Low]             (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).          {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or             result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count             for nothing.          {To go forth}.             (a) To depart from a place.             (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.                               The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of                            the Lord from Jerusalem.            --Micah iv. 2.          {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger.          {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]          {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to             have free access. --John x. 9.          {To go in for}. [Colloq.]             (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a                   measure, etc.).             (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,                   preferment, etc.)             (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).             (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.                               He was as ready to go in for statistics as for                            anything else.                           --Dickens.                            {To go in to} [or] {unto}.             (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.             (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]          {To go into}.             (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,                   subject, etc.).             (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).          {To go large}.             (Naut) See under {Large}.          {To go off}.             (a) To go away; to depart.                               The leaders . . . will not go off until they                            hear you.                                    --Shak.             (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.             (c) To die. --Shak.             (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of                   a gun, a mine, etc.             (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.             (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.                               The wedding went off much as such affairs do.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Caskell.          {To go on}.             (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to                   go on reading.             (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will                   not go on.          {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point.                         It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.                                                                               --Macaulay.          {To go out}.             (a) To issue forth from a place.             (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.                               There are other men fitter to go out than I.                                                                               --Shak.                               What went ye out for to see ?      --Matt. xi. 7,                                                                               8, 9.             (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as                   news, fame etc.             (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,                   the light has gone out.                               Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.                                                                               --Addison.          {To go over}.             (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to                   change sides.                               I must not go over Jordan.         --Deut. iv.                                                                               22.                               Let me go over, and see the good land that is                            beyond Jordan.                           --Deut. iii.                                                                               25.                               Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the                            Ammonites.                                 --Jer. xli.                                                                               10.             (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go                   over one's accounts.                               If we go over the laws of Christianity, we                            shall find that . . . they enjoin the same                            thing.                                       --Tillotson.             (c) To transcend; to surpass.             (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the                   session.             (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance                   or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into                   orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into                   dextrose and levulose.          {To go through}.             (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.             (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a                   surgical operation or a tedious illness.             (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.             (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]             (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]          {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the             end; to complete.          {To go to ground}.             (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.             (b) To fall in battle.          {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or             unavailling.          {To go under}.             (a) To set; -- said of the sun.             (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).             (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;                   to succumb.          {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.             [Slang]          {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.          {To go with}.             (a) To accompany.             (b) To coincide or agree with.             (c) To suit; to harmonize with.          {To go} (          {well},          {ill}, [or]          {hard})          {with}, to affect (one) in such manner.          {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of.          {To go wrong}.             (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or                   stray.             (b) To depart from virtue.             (c) To happen unfortunately.             (d) To miss success.          {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to             release.
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Back \Back\, adv. [Shortened from aback.]       1. In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step             back.          2. To the place from which one came; to the place or person             from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back             for something left behind; to go back to one's native             place; to put a book back after reading it.          3. To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back             to private life; to go back to barbarism.          4. (Of time) In times past; ago. [bd]Sixty or seventy years             back.[b8] --Gladstone.          5. Away from contact; by reverse movement.                         The angel of the Lord . . . came, and rolled back                      the stone from the door.                     --Matt. xxvii.                                                                               2.          6. In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to             keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to             another.          7. In a state of restraint or hindrance.                         The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. --Numb.                                                                               xxiv. 11.          8. In return, repayment, or requital.                         What have I to give you back!            --Shak.          9. In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking;             as, he took back0 the offensive words.          10. In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent. [Colloq.]          {Back and forth}, backwards and forwards; to and fro.          {To go back on}, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray;             as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's             professions. [Colloq.]
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an             act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over             or through.                         By going over all these particulars, you may receive                      some tolerable satisfaction about this great                      subject.                                             --South.          8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.                         The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that                      it may find Good time, and live.         --Shak.          9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence             the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to             depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.                         I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord                      your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.                                                                               --Ex. viii.                                                                               28.          10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to             perish; to decline; to decease; to die.                         By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath                      our master sped.                              --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the             street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New             York.                         His amorous expressions go no further than virtue                      may allow.                                       --Dryden.          12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.          Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and                adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the                preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,                lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go                against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go                astray, etc.          {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,             serious or ironical.          {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired.          {To go about}.             (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to                   undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8]                   --Acts ix. 29.                               They never go about . . . to hide or palliate                            their vices.                              --Swift.             (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.                            {To go abraod}.             (a) To go to a foreign country.             (b) To go out of doors.             (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be                   current.                               Then went this saying abroad among the                            brethren.                                    --John xxi.                                                                               23.          {To go against}.             (a) To march against; to attack.             (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.          {To go ahead}.             (a) To go in advance.             (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.          {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}.          {To go aside}.             (a) To withdraw; to retire.                               He . . . went aside privately into a desert                            place.                                       --Luke. ix.                                                                               10.             (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.          {To go back on}.             (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).             (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.                   S.]          {To go below}             (Naut), to go below deck.          {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a             secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.                      {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}.          {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.          {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried             overboard; as, the mast went by the board.          {To go down}.             (a) To descend.             (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.             (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.             (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.                   [Colloq.]                               Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down                            whole with him for truth.            --L' Estrange.          {To go far}.             (a) To go to a distance.             (b) To have much weight or influence.          {To go for}.             (a) To go in quest of.             (b) To represent; to pass for.             (c) To favor; to advocate.             (d) To attack; to assault. [Low]             (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).          {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or             result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count             for nothing.          {To go forth}.             (a) To depart from a place.             (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.                               The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of                            the Lord from Jerusalem.            --Micah iv. 2.          {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger.          {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]          {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to             have free access. --John x. 9.          {To go in for}. [Colloq.]             (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a                   measure, etc.).             (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,                   preferment, etc.)             (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).             (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.                               He was as ready to go in for statistics as for                            anything else.                           --Dickens.                            {To go in to} [or] {unto}.             (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.             (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]          {To go into}.             (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,                   subject, etc.).             (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).          {To go large}.             (Naut) See under {Large}.          {To go off}.             (a) To go away; to depart.                               The leaders . . . will not go off until they                            hear you.                                    --Shak.             (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.             (c) To die. --Shak.             (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of                   a gun, a mine, etc.             (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.             (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.                               The wedding went off much as such affairs do.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Caskell.          {To go on}.             (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to                   go on reading.             (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will                   not go on.          {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point.                         It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.                                                                               --Macaulay.          {To go out}.             (a) To issue forth from a place.             (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.                               There are other men fitter to go out than I.                                                                               --Shak.                               What went ye out for to see ?      --Matt. xi. 7,                                                                               8, 9.             (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as                   news, fame etc.             (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,                   the light has gone out.                               Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.                                                                               --Addison.          {To go over}.             (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to                   change sides.                               I must not go over Jordan.         --Deut. iv.                                                                               22.                               Let me go over, and see the good land that is                            beyond Jordan.                           --Deut. iii.                                                                               25.                               Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the                            Ammonites.                                 --Jer. xli.                                                                               10.             (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go                   over one's accounts.                               If we go over the laws of Christianity, we                            shall find that . . . they enjoin the same                            thing.                                       --Tillotson.             (c) To transcend; to surpass.             (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the                   session.             (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance                   or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into                   orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into                   dextrose and levulose.          {To go through}.             (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.             (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a                   surgical operation or a tedious illness.             (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.             (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]             (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]          {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the             end; to complete.          {To go to ground}.             (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.             (b) To fall in battle.          {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or             unavailling.          {To go under}.             (a) To set; -- said of the sun.             (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).             (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;                   to succumb.          {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.             [Slang]          {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.          {To go with}.             (a) To accompany.             (b) To coincide or agree with.             (c) To suit; to harmonize with.          {To go} (          {well},          {ill}, [or]          {hard})          {with}, to affect (one) in such manner.          {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of.          {To go wrong}.             (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or                   stray.             (b) To depart from virtue.             (c) To happen unfortunately.             (d) To miss success.          {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to             release.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Company \Com"pa*ny\, n.; pl. {Companies}. [F. compagnie, fr. OF.       compaing. See {Companion}.]       1. The state of being a companion or companions; the act of             accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly             intercourse. --Shak.                         Evil company doth corrupt good manners. --1 Cor. xv.                                                                               33. (Rev.                                                                               Ver.).                         Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not                      wish.                                                --Milton.          2. A companion or companions.                         To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome.                                                                               --Shak.          3. An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent             or transient.                         Thou shalt meet a company of prophets. --1 Sam. x.                                                                               5.          4. Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a             family; as, to invite company to dine.          5. Society, in general; people assembled for social             intercourse.                         Nature has left every man a capacity of being                      agreeable, though not of shining in company.                                                                               --Swift.          6. An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on             some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as,             the East India Company; an insurance company; a             joint-stock company.          7. Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its             style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as,             Hottinguer & Co.          8. (Mil.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the             command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full             strength) 100 men.          9. (Naut.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a             whole ship's company.          10. The body of actors employed in a theater or in the             production of a play.          {To keep company with}. See under {Keep}, v. t.          Syn: Assemblage; assembly; society; group; circle; crowd;                troop; crew; gang; corporation; association; fraternity;                guild; partnership; copartnery; union; club; party;                gathering.
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Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
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Counsel \Coun"sel\ (koun"s?l), n. [OE. conc[?]l, F. conseil, fr.       L. consilium, fr. the root of consulere to consult, of       uncertain origin. Cf. {Consult}, {Consul}.]       1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.                         All the chief priest and elders of the people took                      counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. --Matt.                                                                               xxvii. 1.          2. Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate             judgment; prudence.                         They all confess, therefore, in the working of that                      first cause, that counsel is used.      --Hooker.          3. Result of consultation; advice; instruction.                         I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. --Shak.                         It was ill counsel had misled the girl. --Tennyson.          4. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.                         The counsel of the Lord standeth forever. --Ps.                                                                               xxxiii. 11.                         The counsels of the wicked are deceit. --Prov. xii.                                                                               5.          5. A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.                         Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid.                                                                               --Gower.          6. One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one             professionally engaged in the trial or management of a             cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates             united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has             able counsel.                         The King found his counsel as refractory as his                      judges.                                             --Macaulay.          Note: The some courts a distinction is observed between the                attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being                employed in the management iof the more mechanical                parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the                pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in                applying the law to the exigencies of the case during                the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the                same person can exercise the powers of each. See                {Attorney}. --Kent.          {In counsel}, in secret. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          {To keep counsel}, [or]          {To keep one's own counsel}, to keep one's thoughts,             purposes, etc., undisclosed.                         The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all.                                                                               --Shak.          Syn: Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme;                opinion.
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Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
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{To keep good hours}, to be regular in going to bed early.
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Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
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{To bring down the house}. See under {Bring}.          {To keep house}, to maintain an independent domestic             establishment.          {To keep open house}, to entertain friends at all times.          Syn: Dwelling; residence; abode. See {Tenement}.
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In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom. --Shak.                I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's             place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves.                                                                               --Bacon.          {False quarter}, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot.          {Fifth quarter}, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term.          {On the quarter} (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and             astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter.                      {Quarter aspect}. (Astrol.) Same as {Quadrate}.          {Quarter back} (Football), the player who has position next             behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap             back.          {Quarter badge} (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel             near, the stern. --Mar. Dict.          {Quarter bill} (Naut.), a list specifying the different             stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of             action, and the names of the men assigned to each.          {Quarter block} (Naut.), a block fitted under the quarters of             a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew             lines and sheets are reeved. --R. H. Dana, Jr.          {Quarter boat} (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter.          {Quarter cloths} (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used             to cover the quarter netting.          {Quarter day}, a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the             year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent,             becomes due. In matters influenced by United States             statutes, quarter days are the first days of January,             April, July, and October. In New York and many other             places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first             days of May, August, November, and February. The quarter             days usually recognized in England are 25th of March (Lady             Day), the 24th of June (Midsummer Day), the 29th of             September (Michaelmas Day), and the 25th of December             (Christmas Day).          {Quarter face}, in fine arts, portrait painting, etc., a face             turned away so that but one quarter is visible.          {Quarter gallery} (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a             ship. See {Gallery}, 4.          {Quarter gunner} (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the             gunner.          {Quarter look}, a side glance. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.          {Quarter nettings} (Naut.), hammock nettings along the             quarter rails.          {Quarter note} (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a             minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet.          {Quarter pieces} (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the             after-part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail.             --Totten.          {Quarter point}. (Naut.) See {Quarter}, n., 1             (n) .          {Quarter railing}, [or] {Quarter rails} (Naut.), narrow             molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the             gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck.          {Quarter sessions} (Eng. Law), a general court of criminal             jurisdiction held quarterly by the justices of peace in             counties and by the recorders in boroughs.          {Quarter square} (Math.), the fourth part of the square of a             number. Tables of quarter squares have been devised to             save labor in multiplying numbers.          {Quarter turn}, {Quarter turn belt} (Mach.), an arrangement             in which a belt transmits motion between two shafts which             are at right angles with each other.          {Quarter watch} (Naut.), a subdivision of the full watch (one             fourth of the crew) on a man-of- war.          {To give}, [or] {show}, {quarter} (Mil.), to accept as             prisoner, on submission in battle; to forbear to kill, as             a vanquished enemy.          {To keep quarter}. See {Quarter}, n., 3.
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Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
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Shady \Shad"y\, a. [Compar. {Shadier}; superl. {Shadiest}.]       1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade;             causing shade.                         The shady trees cover him with their shadow. --Job.                                                                               xl. 22.                         And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. --Dryden.          2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.                         Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for                      summer and warm for winter.               --Bacon.          3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be             seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt. [Colloq.]             [bd]A shady business.[b8] --London Sat. Rev.                         Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. --London                                                                               Spectator.          {On the shady side of}, on the thither side of; as, on the             shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. [Colloq.]                      {To keep shady}, to stay in concealment; also, to be             reticent. [Slang]
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Stroke \Stroke\, n. [OE. strok, strook, strak, fr. striken. See       {Strike}, v. t.]       1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a             violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or             with an instrument or weapon.                         His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down                      the tree.                                          --Deut. xix.                                                                               5.                         A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth                      calleth for strokes.                           --Prov. xviii.                                                                               6.                         He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples                      without striking a stroke.                  --Bacon.          2. The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction;             soreness.                         In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his                      people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.                                                                               --Isa. xxx.                                                                               26.          3. The striking of the clock to tell the hour.                         Well, but what's o'clock? - Upon the stroke of ten.                      -- Well, let is strike.                     --Shak.          4. A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a             stroking. --Dryden.          5. A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch             of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.                         O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as                      thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. --Pope.          6. Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written             composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes             to an essay. --Addison.          7. A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a             severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a             sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.                         At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.                                                                               --Harte.          8. A throb or beat, as of the heart. --Tennyson.          9. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting             medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is             accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying,             or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also:             (Rowing)             (a) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.             (b) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the                   other oars are guided; -- called also {stroke oar}.             (c) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.          10. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done,             produced, or accomplished; also, something done or             accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a             stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.          11. (Mach.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston             plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam             engine or a pump, in which these parts have a             reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston;             also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston,             in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.          Note: The respective strokes are distinguished as up and down                strokes, outward and inward strokes, forward and back                strokes, the forward stroke in stationary steam engines                being toward the crosshead, but in locomotives toward                the front of the vehicle.          12. Power; influence. [Obs.] [bd]Where money beareth [hath]             all the stroke.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia).                         He has a great stroke with the reader. --Dryden.          13. Appetite. [Obs.] --Swift.          {To keep stroke}, to make strokes in unison.                         The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes                      kept stroke.                                       --Shak.
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Open \O"pen\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Opened}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Opening}.] [AS. openian. See {Open},a.]       1. To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose;             to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering             from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room;             to open a letter.                         And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.                                                                               --Whittier.          2. To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.          3. To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.                         The king opened himself to some of his council, that                      he was sorry for the earl's death.      --Bacon.                         Unto thee have I opened my cause.      --Jer. xx. 12.                         While he opened to us the Scriptures. --Luke xxiv.                                                                               32.          4. To make known; to discover; also, to render available or             accessible for settlements, trade, etc.                         The English did adventure far for to open the North                      parts of America.                              --Abp. Abbot.          5. To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open             fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to             open a case in court, or a meeting.          6. To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton             by separating the fibers.          {To open one's mouth}, {to speak}.          {To open up}, to lay open; to discover; to disclose.                         Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views                      into the character and condition of our [bd]bold                      peasantry, their country's pride.[b8] --Prof.                                                                               Wilson.
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Speak \Speak\, v. t.       1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter             articulately, as human beings.                         They sat down with him upn ground seven days and                      seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. --Job.                                                                               ii. 13.          2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare             orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.          3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to             exhibit; to express in any way.                         It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. --Shak.                         Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.                                                                               --Tennyson.                         And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The                      maker's high magnificence.                  --Milton.                         Report speaks you a bonny monk.         --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in             conversation; as, to speak Latin.                         And French she spake full fair and fetisely.                                                                               --Chaucer.          5. To address; to accost; to speak to.                         [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.                                                                               --Ecclus.                                                                               xiii. 6.                         each village senior paused to scan And speak the                      lovely caravan.                                 --Emerson.          {To speak a ship} (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain             or commander.
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Book \Book\ (b[oocr]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[omac]c; akin to       Goth. b[omac]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel.       b[omac]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[omac]k, D. boek, OHG.       puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[omac]c, b[emac]ce, beech;       because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes       on pieces of beechen board. Cf. {Beech}.]       1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material,             blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many             folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or             writing.          Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed,                the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a                volume of some size, from a pamphlet.          Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book                is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound                together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music                or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott.          2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.                         A good book is the precious life blood of a master                      spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a                      life beyond life.                              --Milton.          3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as,             the tenth book of [bd]Paradise Lost.[b8]          4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are             kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and             expenditures, etc.          5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in             certain other games, two or more corresponding cards,             forming a set.          Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many                compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book                lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook.          {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a             book.          {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the             creditor in his book of accounts.          {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as             distinguished from practical knowledge. [bd]Neither does             it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good             natural sense, to distinguish true and false.[b8]             --Burnet.          {Book louse} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of minute,             wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They             belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}.          {Book moth} (Zo[94]l.), the name of several species of moths,             the larv[91] of which eat books.          {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible.          {The Book of Books}, the Bible.          {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts,             etc., may be transmitted by mail.          {Book scorpion} (Zo[94]l.), one of the false scorpions             ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It             can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects.                      {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for             retailing books.          {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}.          {In one's books}, in one's favor. [bd]I was so much in his             books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.[b8]             --Addison.          {To bring to book}.             (a) To compel to give an account.             (b) To compare with an admitted authority. [bd]To bring it                   manifestly to book is impossible.[b8] --M. Arnold.          {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}.          {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a             pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that             the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and             loses only on the winning horse or horses.          {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness.          {Without book}.             (a) By memory.             (b) Without authority.
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Card \Card\, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. [?] a leaf       of paper. Cf. {Chart}.]       1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared             for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a             card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.                         Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray.          2. A published note, containing a brief statement,             explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like;             as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed             programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as,             this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.          3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the             dial or face of the mariner's compass.                         All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's                      card.                                                --Shak.          4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for             warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a             loom. See {Jacquard}.          5. An indicator card. See under {Indicator}.          {Business card}, a card on which is printed an advertisement             or business address.          {Card basket}             (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.             (b) A basket made of cardboard.          {Card catalogue}. See {Catalogue}.          {Card rack}, a rack or frame for holding and displaying             business or visiting card.          {Card table}, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one             having a leaf which folds over.          {On the cards}, likely to happen; foretold and expected but             not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers             that has come into common use; also, according to the             programme.          {Playing card}, cards used in playing games; specifically,             the cards cards used playing which and other games of             chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or             suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full             or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.          {To have the cards in one's own hands}, to have the winning             cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.          {To play one's cards well}, to make no errors; to act             shrewdly.          {To play snow one's cards}, to expose one's plants to rivals             or foes.          {To speak by the card}, to speak from information and             definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by             the compass card.          {Visiting card}, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes             the address, of the person presenting it.
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Fair \Fair\, adv.       Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably;       auspiciously; agreeably.          {Fair and square}, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially.             [Colloq.]          {To bid fair}. See under {Bid}.          {To speak fair}, to address with courtesy and frankness.             [Archaic]
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Buncombe \Bun"combe\, Bunkum \Bun"kum\, n. [Buncombe a county of       North Carolina.]       Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to       gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose;       anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.]                   All that flourish about right of search was bunkum --                all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was                bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum.                                                                               --Haliburton.          {To speak for Buncombe}, to speak for mere show, or             popularly.          Note: [bd]The phrase originated near the close of the debate                on the famous [bf]Missouri Question,' in the 16th                Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker -- a                na[8b]ve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville,                in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina,                near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe,                which formed part of his district. The old man rose to                speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the                [bf]Question,' and several members gathered round him,                begging him to desist. He preserved, however, for a                while, declaring that the people of his district                expected it, and that he was bound to [bf]make a speech                for Buncombe.'[b8] --W. Darlington.
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.       {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to       OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.       sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to       thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]       1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to             express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so             obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.                         Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.                         Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.                                                                               9.          2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.                         That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,                      as the tradesmen speak.                     --Boyle.                         An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a                      knave is not.                                    --Shak.                         During the century and a half which followed the                      Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English                      history.                                             --Macaulay.          3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a             public assembly formally.                         Many of the nobility made themselves popular by                      speaking in Parliament against those things which                      were most grateful to his majesty.      --Clarendon.          4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.                         Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came                      to him from the Leman Lake.               --Addison.          5. To give sound; to sound.                         Make all our trumpets speak.               --Shak.          6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by             utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.                         Thine eye begins to speak.                  --Shak.          {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.             --Robynson (More's Utopia).          {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to             speak unreservedly.          {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.          {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with             me?[b8] --Shak.          Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;                pronounce; utter.
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.       {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to       OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.       sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to       thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]       1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to             express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so             obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.                         Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.                         Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.                                                                               9.          2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.                         That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,                      as the tradesmen speak.                     --Boyle.                         An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a                      knave is not.                                    --Shak.                         During the century and a half which followed the                      Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English                      history.                                             --Macaulay.          3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a             public assembly formally.                         Many of the nobility made themselves popular by                      speaking in Parliament against those things which                      were most grateful to his majesty.      --Clarendon.          4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.                         Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came                      to him from the Leman Lake.               --Addison.          5. To give sound; to sound.                         Make all our trumpets speak.               --Shak.          6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by             utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.                         Thine eye begins to speak.                  --Shak.          {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.             --Robynson (More's Utopia).          {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to             speak unreservedly.          {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.          {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with             me?[b8] --Shak.          Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;                pronounce; utter.
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.       {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to       OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.       sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to       thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]       1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to             express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so             obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.                         Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.                         Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.                                                                               9.          2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.                         That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,                      as the tradesmen speak.                     --Boyle.                         An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a                      knave is not.                                    --Shak.                         During the century and a half which followed the                      Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English                      history.                                             --Macaulay.          3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a             public assembly formally.                         Many of the nobility made themselves popular by                      speaking in Parliament against those things which                      were most grateful to his majesty.      --Clarendon.          4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.                         Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came                      to him from the Leman Lake.               --Addison.          5. To give sound; to sound.                         Make all our trumpets speak.               --Shak.          6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by             utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.                         Thine eye begins to speak.                  --Shak.          {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.             --Robynson (More's Utopia).          {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to             speak unreservedly.          {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.          {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with             me?[b8] --Shak.          Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;                pronounce; utter.
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.       {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to       OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.       sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to       thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]       1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to             express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so             obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.                         Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.                         Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.                                                                               9.          2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.                         That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,                      as the tradesmen speak.                     --Boyle.                         An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a                      knave is not.                                    --Shak.                         During the century and a half which followed the                      Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English                      history.                                             --Macaulay.          3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a             public assembly formally.                         Many of the nobility made themselves popular by                      speaking in Parliament against those things which                      were most grateful to his majesty.      --Clarendon.          4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.                         Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came                      to him from the Leman Lake.               --Addison.          5. To give sound; to sound.                         Make all our trumpets speak.               --Shak.          6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by             utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.                         Thine eye begins to speak.                  --Shak.          {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.             --Robynson (More's Utopia).          {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to             speak unreservedly.          {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.          {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with             me?[b8] --Shak.          Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;                pronounce; utter.
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Touchback \Touch"back`\, n. (G)       The act of touching the football down by a player behind his       own goal line when it received its last impulse from an       opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
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Touch-box \Touch"-box`\, n.       A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers       who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
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Two-capsuled \Two"-cap`suled\, a. (Bot.)       Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.