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Webster 1913 Edition
Keeping
Keep′ing
,Noun.
1.
A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
His happiness is in his own
keeping
. South.
2.
Maintenance; support; provision; feed;
as, the cattle have good
. keeping
The work of many hands, which earns my
keeping
. Milton.
4.
(Paint.)
Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art;
as, the foreground of this painting is not in
. keeping
Syn. – Care; guardianship; custody; possession.
Webster 1828 Edition
Keeping
KEE'PING
,ppr.
KEE'PING
,Noun.
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.