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A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

nk (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of…

In a state of restraint or hindrance. The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. Numb. xxiv. 11.

A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.

o customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

d luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

ossible. Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay. Dryden. The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. I. Taylor

larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. M. Arnold. -- Bear leader, one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young m…

ized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such s…

One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.

A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.

who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside. [Obs.] And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.