- (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
- (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
- (n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Keep.
- (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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