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the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8.

n a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.

A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:

The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.

To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope.

to small pieces; to cut short or down. [Obs.] All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back. J. Webster.

Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

ch, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.

Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret. Seal up your lips, and give no words but "mum". Shak.

To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] Evelyn. -- Se*clud"ed*ly, adv. -- Se*clud"ed*ness, n.

Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

To keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon.

The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. [R.]

Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.

the years wherein we have seen evil. Ps. xc. 15. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John viii. 51. Improvement in visdom and prudence by seeing men. Locke.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak.

Watch; guard. [Obs.] "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.

e toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden. Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.