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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Keep \Keep\ (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr & vb n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k?pen, AS c?pan to keep regard, desire, await, take betake; cf AS copenere lover, OE copnien to desire.] 1. To care to desire. [Obs.] I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer. 2. To hold to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. If we lose the field, We can not keep the town. --Shak. That I may know what keeps me here with you --Dryden. If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are considering, that would instruct us --Locke. 3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor. His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton. Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on --Addison. Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and adverbs, as to keep away to keep down to keep from to keep in out or off etc ``To keep off impertinence and solicitation from his superior.'' --Addison. 4. To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of The crown of Stephanus first king of Hungary, was always kept in the castle of Vicegrade --Knolles. 5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss to guard. Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen. xxviii. 15. 6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man. --Milton. 7. To attend upon to have the care of to tend. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it --Gen. ii 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. --Carew. 8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in as to keep books, a journal, etc.; also to enter (as accounts, records, etc ) in a book. 9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like to conduct; to manage; as to keep store. Like a pedant that keeps a school. --Shak. Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward. 10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as to keep boarders. 11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc I keep but three men and a boy. --Shak. 12. To have habitually in stock for sale. 13. To continue in as a course or mode of action not to intermit or fall from to hold to to maintain; as to keep silence; to keep one's word to keep possession. Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak. Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett. 14. To observe; to adhere to to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to I have kept the faith. --2 Tim. iv 7. Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command. --Milton. 15. To confine one's self to not to quit to remain in as to keep one's house, room bed, etc.; hence to haunt; to frequent. --Shak. 'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep --J. Fletcher. 16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to solemnize; as to keep a feast. I went with them to the house of God . . . with a multitude that kept holyday. --Ps. xlii 4. {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n. {To keep back}. a To reserve; to withhold. ``I will keep nothing back from you.'' --Jer. xlii 4. b To restrain; to hold back ``Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.'' --Ps. xix. 13. {To keep company with}. a To frequent the society of to associate with as let youth keep company with the wise and good. b To accompany; to go with as to keep company with one on a voyage; also to pay court to or accept attentions from with a view to marriage. [Colloq.] {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n. {To keep down}. a To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder. b (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may not be diverted from the more important parts of the work {To keep good} (or {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To keep house}. a To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to manage domestic affairs. b (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors. -- {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law), to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}. a (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term. b (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners in hall to make the term count for the purpose of being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n. {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence to oppress. {To keep up}. a To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution; as to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's credit. b To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing. ``In joy, that which keeps up the action is the desire to continue it.'' --Locke. Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold restrain; maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}. Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is often used where retain or preserve would too much restrict the meaning; as to keep silence, etc Retain denotes that we keep or hold things as against influences which might deprive us of them or reasons which might lead us to give them up as to retain vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit; to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune. Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in upon as to preserve one's health; to preserve appearances. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS weder; akin to OS wedar, OFries weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw v["a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf {Wither}.] 1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. --Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii 22. 2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. --Bacon. 3. Storm; tempest. What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage! --Dryden. 4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif. {Stress of weather}, violent winds; force of tempests. {To make fair weather}, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.] {To make good}, or {bad}, {weather} (Naut.), to endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak. {Under the weather}, ill; also financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett. {Weather box}. Same as {Weather house}, below. --Thackeray. {Weather breeder}, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather. {Weather bureau}, a popular name for the signal service. See {Signal service}, under {Signal}, a. [U. S.] {Weather cloth} (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed in the nettings. {Weather door}. (Mining) See {Trapdoor}, 2. {Weather gall}. Same as {Water gall}, 2. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Weather house}, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images. Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy! --Cowper. {Weather molding}, or {Weather moulding} (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain. {Weather of a windmill sail}, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution. {Weather report}, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority. {Weather spy}, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] --Donne. {Weather strip} (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), imp. of {Bid}. Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Worse}; superl. {Worst}. ] [Probably fr AS b[ae]ddel hermaphrodite; cf b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.] Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news Note: Sometimes used substantively. The strong antipathy of good to bad --Pope. Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bid \Bid\ (b[i^]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[a^]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr & vb n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask beg, AS biddan akin to OS biddian Icel. bi[eth]ja, OHG. bittan G. bitten, to pray, ask request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE beden, beoden AS be['o]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[=o][eth]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden to offer, also to Gr pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[=e]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE bidden to ask but the meaning of OE beden to command, except in ``to bid beads.'' [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known [Mostly obs.] ``Our banns thrice bid !'' --Gay. 4. To order to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold 5. To invite; to call in to request to come As many as ye shall find bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order command; direct; charge; enjoin. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bad adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" [ant: {good}] 2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: {big}] 3: feeling physical discomfort or pain; "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad' as in "he was feeling tough after a restless night") [syn: {tough}] 4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {spoiled}, {spoilt}] 5: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" [syn: {uncollectible}] 6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital" 7: (linguistics; informal) "so-called bad grammar" 8: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" [syn: {insecure}, {risky}, {high-risk}, {speculative}] 9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn: {unfit}, {unsound}] 10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you" 11: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {sorry}] 12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life" [syn: {immoral}] 13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: {forged}] 14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: {defective}] n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency: "take the bad with the good" [syn: {badness}] [ant: {good}, {good}] adv 1: with great intensity; "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly' as in "it hurts bad" or "we need water bad") [syn: {badly}] 2: very much strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: {badly}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: BAD /B-A-D/ adj [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: BAD /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, "Broken As Designed"] Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See {working as designed}. [{Jargon File}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: BAD Broken As Designed (slang)
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