Keeping
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Keeping - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
KEE'PING, ppr. Holding; restraining; preserving; guarding; protecting; performing.
KEE'PING, n. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; preservation.
1. Feed; fodder. The cattle have good keeping.
2. In painting, a representation of objects in the manner they appear to the eye at different distance from it.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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