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(ke’pér), m. [ In that Cesonne, that the Bawme is growynge, Men put + -er1.] 1. One who keeps, observes, or obeys. there to [thereto] gode kepynge, that no Man dar ben hardy Tam a keeper of the law to entre. Mandeville, Travels, p. 50. In some sma’ points, altho’ not a’. 8. Maintenance; support; subsistence; feed; Burns, Verses to John Rankine, fodder: as, the eattle have good keeping. 2. One who has the charge or keeping of any- Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that thing; a caretaker; a custodian: often form differs not from the stalling of an ox? sues ing the second element of a compound: as, the Shak., As you Like it, i, 1, 9 614 keeping 4. Just proportion; conformity; congruity; Boat-keg, consistency; harmony: as, his words are not the for in keeping with his deeds. fresh B— would have been more in keeping if he had abided level by the faith of his forefathers. and Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. kei-apple, Her lord and master, in the spotle whitene of his can rufties on wrist and bosom, and in the immaculate keep shrub, ing and neatne of all his clerical black, and the perfect It pose of his grand full-bottomed clerical wig, did honor to her conjugal cares. H, B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 350. fruit.— bles The “Rape of the Lock.” For wit, fancy, invention, and keeping, it has never been surpa ed. pickle Lowell, Study Windows, p. 407. into He did not offer to stab me and sink my body in the keiet, Grand Canal, as, in all Venetian keeping, I felt that he keightt. ought to have done. Howells, Venetian Life, ii. keilt, Upon one’s keeping’, upon one’s guard. keilhauite Idoo promes you that I am upon me Iypyng every daye. hau MS. letter, dated 1562. (Nares.) related keeping-room (ké’ping-rém), ». The common iron, sitting-room of a family; also, in English unikeir, versities, the sitting-room of a student. [New kar, Eng. and proy. Eng.] MHG. All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one vas room: it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room. In Thoreau, Walden, p. 261. bleaching-liquor; Like many other buildings of the same date and style, ery. that which was designated as the keeping-room or parlour was the pa age of the house. J. Freeman, W. Kirby, p. 219. bottom