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To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. --…

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

hen resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with mal…

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. Macaulay.

A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

One who keeps an apiary.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.

rticle of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

and of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

To make or keep sober. [Obs.] Gower.

To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England. Fuller.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.…

The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." Beattie.