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

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).

A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding.

See Skid.

A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

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

To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. [Obs.] Spenser.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance. "Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep." Scribner's Mag.

A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]

The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. Hawthorne. Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.

Humorously, a Yankee. We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.

A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like. Lowell.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.