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Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind.

A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent.

A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs. If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end. Addison.

where a criminal or accused person stands. Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. -- Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often…

f a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.

d mechanical drawing. Draughting room, a room draughtsmen to work in, and where plans are kept.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [Eng.]

rly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs. [R.]

etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

rving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

ay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

eceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.