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whole; neat; tidy. Clad very plain, but clean and tight. Evelyn. I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. Gay.

The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

re; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. Beau. & Fl.

A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time. Specifically: --

Keeping time or measure. Spenser.

A performer who keeps good time.

One who keeps a tippling-house. [Obs.] Latimer.

of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor. Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter. B. Jonson. Whilst they, d…

A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.] The bow tortureth the string. Bacon.

To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. -- To touch the wind (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible. -- To touch up, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation.

The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. Simmonds.

ccurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original. Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. Sir W. Scott.

A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stil…

y. -- To turn one's goods or money, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. -- To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. -- To turn out. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to tur…

set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.

A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman.

an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation. J. H. Walsh.