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Definition of Keep in
1. Verb. Cause to stay indoors.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep In
Literary usage of Keep in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To keep in, To conceal ; not to tell ; to restrain ; to curb. To keep off, To
bear to a distance ; not to admit ; to hinder. To keep up. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... by orders for a main attack with the " whole command," which I was to keep
in " position for a rapid movement down the Old Richmond road. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... where the finest rectangular keep in England still testifies to their power.
From its resemblance to that of Rochester, it was probably the work of the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"9 — 28 a judicial mind is needed, above all things, to keep in view the fundamental
fact of modern Dutch history — that "the state without a throne* ..."
5. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"'With Covenant to keep in Repair, Effect of. — If the tenant covenants to keep
the premises in repair, and also to insure them for a specific sum against ..."
6. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"So keep in ' this, that keeps you always pure ; what men and women act in this,
they ' act in that which will stand when the world is gone. ..."
7. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"In going into the river, you must keep your lead going, and keep in the middle,
and go between two points of marsh, and you will have no more than. ..."
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