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Due gratitude and reverence to God. Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 21.

sed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes. Why but to keep ye low and ignorant Milton.

emedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

To keep out of sight. The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. Blackstone.

delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.

The keeper and driver of an elephant. [East Indies]

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil;…

ansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den

Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards.

One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital. Jury of matrons (Law), a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.…

tanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument. Macaulay. Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper. [U. S. & Scot.]

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc. [Obs.] Shak.

One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.