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Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

d; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war. Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics . . . in prosecution of their various duties. Sir W. Scott.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

thentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison.

The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon.

The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest." Milton. What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature Hare.

A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:

Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.