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Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.

Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.

To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.

ll on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs.

man was master of himself, or in possession of his senses]." Shak. To hold one's own, to keep or maintain one's possessions; to yield nothing; esp., to suffer no loss or disadvantage in a contest. Shak.

A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.] Tyndale.

parcels. See under 6th Bill. -- Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels. -- Part and parcel. See under Part.

, The keeper of a park. Sir M. Hale.

ip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

e lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power. Rowe. He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership. Dryden.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

usiness of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

rnment, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.

A place for keeping and rearing pheasants. Gwilt.

To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. Shenstone.

To steal; to pilfer. "To keep my hands from picking and stealing." Book of Com. Prayer. To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]