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A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients. [Obs.] The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen). Encyc. Brit.

To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop. Chaucer. Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old. Dryden.

raw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

estive purposes; to hold a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. Shak.

In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.

part of the moon. Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep. Addison.

To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. Spenser.

The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise. Burrill.

A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.

One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate." Dryden.

Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone.

A man who keeps ward; a guard. [R.] Sydney Smith.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

[Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

ke green timber, warp, warp. Shak. They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. Moxon.

A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. Burrill.