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A ship keeping company with another.

contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. Milton. Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. Locke.

A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc. The old gods of our own race whose names . . . serve as counters reckon the days of the week. E. B. Tylor. What comes the wool to . . . I can not do it witthout counters. Shak.

Iron insruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.

o followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

ated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.

The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double, a., 4. -- Double-framed floor (Arch.),…