Vocabulary : Keener to Keeve
Keener : A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.Keenly : In a keen manner.
Keenness : The quality or state of being keen.
Keep : To care; to desire. ;; 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. ;; To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor. ;; To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of. ;; To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard. ;; To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. ;; To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend. ;; To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book. ;; To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store. ;; To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders. ;; To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. ;; To have habitually in st
Keeper : One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. ;; One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. ;; One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. ;; One who remains or keeps in a place or position. ;; A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap. ;; A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
