keeping 
4. Just proportion; conformity; congruity; 
consistency; harmony: as, his words are not 
in keeping with his deeds. 
B would have been more in keeping if he had abided 
by the faith of his forefathers. 
Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. 
Her lord and master, in the spotless whiteness of his 
ruffles on wrist and bosom, and in the immaculate keep- 
ing and neatness of all his clerical black, and the perfect 
pose of his grand full-bottomed clerical wig, did honor to 
her conjugal cares. U. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 360. 
The "Eape of the Lock." For wit, fancy, invention, 
and keeping, it has never been surpassed. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 407. 
He did not offer to stab me and sink my body in the 
Grand Canal, as, in all Venetian keeping, I felt that he 
ought to have done. Howells, Venetian Life, ii. 
Upon one's keeping*, upon one's guard. 
I doo promes you that I am upon me kypyng every daye. 
MS. letter, dated 1562. (Nares.) 
keeping-room (ke'ping-rom), n. The common 
sitting-room of a family ; also, in English uni- 
versities, the sitting-room of a student. [New 
Eug. and prov. Eng.] 
All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one 
room : it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room. 
Thmreau, Walden, p. 261. 
Like many other buildings of the same date and style, 
that which was designated as the keeping-room or parlour 
was the passage of the house. 
J. Freeman, W. Kirby, p. 219. 
keep-offt (kep'of), . and . I. a. Intended or 
adapted to keep a foe at a distance; hence, 
long; reaching far. 
He fought not with a keepe-o/ spear, or with a farre-shot 
bow, 
But with a massy club of iron. Chapman, Iliad, vii. 
II. n. A guard ; defense ; something to keep 
a foe at a distance. 
A lance then tooke he, with a keene, steele head, 
To be his keepe-o/, both 'gainst men and dogges. 
Chapman, Odyssey, xiv. 
keepsake (kep ' sak), . [Irreg. < keep, v., + 
sake.] Anything kept or given to be kept for 
the sake of the giver; a token of friendship. 
The word was used as the title of some of the holiday 
gift-books formerly published annually. See annual, n. , 4. 
And now ! ah, I see it you just now are stooping 
To pick up the keepsake intended for me. 
Keats, To Some Ladies, on Receiving a Curious Shell. 
I have before me the Keepsake for the year 1831, . . . 
a collection much lower in point of interest and ability 
than the worst number of the worst shilling magazine of 
the present day. . . . Somewhere about the year 1837 the 
world began to kick at the Keepsakes, and they gradually 
got extinguished. Then the lords and countesses put 
away their verses and . . . wrote no more. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 194. 
keep-worthy (kep'wer"THi), a. Worthy of be- 
ing kept or preserved. [Bare.] 
Other keep-worthy documents. 
W. Taylor, Survey of German Poetry, I. 182. 
kees(kes),. [<Ar. kis.~\ The Egyptian purse, 
a sum of five hundred piasters or about twenty- 
five dollars. See purse. 
keesh, See kish 2 . 
keeslip (kes'lip), . A Scotch form of keslop. 
keethie (ke'thi), n. [Origin obscure.] A certain 
fish, the angler, Lophius piscatorius. [Scotch.] 
keeve (kev), n. [Also keave, kieve, kive; < ME. 
*keve, kive, < AS. cyfc, a tub or vat.] A large vat 
or tub used for various purposes, as for dressing 
ores in mining, for holding the lye in bleach- 
ing (in which sense it is also called a keir), as 
a brewers' mashing-tub, etc. 
keeve (kev), v. t.; pret. and pp. keeved, ppr. 
keeving. [< keeve, .] 1. To put in a keeve 
for fermentation, etc. 2. To overturn or lift 
up, as a cart, so as to unload it all at once. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
keever (ke'ver), n. A keeve. Also kiver. 
keffekil, n. See kiefekil. 
keffieh (kef i-e), n. [Ar.] The head-dress of the 
men of the Bedouin or desert tribes of the Mos- 
lem East. They do not wear the tarboosh, but a ker- 
chief secured directly upon the head by a cord called an 
akal. The kerchief is generally worn cornerwise, so that 
two corners fall upon the shoulders, and can be drawn 
over the face or the back of the head at pleasure. 
The red and yellow kef eh, folded and tied in hereditary 
fashion about his swarthy face and over his neck and shoul- 
ders by the Bedouin Arab of the desert. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 460. 
keg (keg),n. [Also (dial.) cag; < Icel. kaggi = 
Sw. Norw. kaggc, a keg, a round mass or heap.] 
1. A small cask or barrel ; a cask-shaped vessel 
of indefinite size, but in capacity less than half 
a barrel, usually from 5 to 10 gallons. 2f. A 
lump; piece. 
The sturgeon cut to keggs (too big to handle whole) 
Gives many a dainty bit out of his lusty jowl. 
Draytnn. Polyolhlnn, xxv. 
3272 
Boat-keg, a small wooden cask, strongly made, large at 
the base, tapering to the top, with bung-hole and bung 
for taking out the water in the closed top : used to carry 
fresh water in small boats. Keg fig. See fig". Keg- 
leveling and -trussing machine, a machine forpressing 
and holding the staves in position for trussing. 
kei-apple, kai-apple (ki'ap"l), . [< S. Afri- 
can kei or kai + K apple.] 1. A tall evergreen 
shrub, Dovyalis (Aberia) Caffra, of South Africa. 
It can be used for hedges, and yields an edible 
fruit. 2. The fruit of this shrub, which resem- 
bles a small yellowish apple. It serves for a 
pickle when green, and when ripe can be made 
into a preserve. 
keiet, . A Middle English form of keyl. 
keightt. An obsolete preterit of catch 1 . 
keilt, n. An obsolete spelling of kail 2 . 
keilhauite (kU'hou-it), n. [After Prof. Keil- 
hau of Norway.] A rare Norwegian mineral, 
related to titanite in form ; a silicotitanate of 
iron, aluminium, yttrium, and calcium. 
keir, kier (ker), . [< Icel. ker = Sw. Dan. 
kar, a tub, vat, or other vessel, = OHG. char, 
MHG. kar, Goth, kas, a vessel, perhaps = L. 
vas (orig. *gvas1), a vessel: see vase, vessel.'] 
In bleaching, a large boiler which contains the 
bleaching-liquor ; the alkaline vat of a bleach- 
ery. See bucking^ and keeve. 
For yarn and thread, it is very usual to have the false 
bottom of the bleaching kier, or pot, movable. 
Spans' Encyc. Manuf., I. 515. 
keisart, . See kaiser, Ccesai: Shale., M. W. of 
W., i. 3, 9. 
keitloa (klt'lo-a), n. [S. African.] The two- 
horned black rhinoceros of South Africa, Rhi- 
noceros keitloa, or Sloan's rhinoceros. The two 
horns are of nearly equal size, attaining a length of about 
a foot. The animal is about 11 feet long and 5 feet high. 
It is ill-tempered, and a very dangerous antagonist, 
kokryphalos (ke-krif 'a-los), n. [< Gr. KSKpi^a- 
, a woman's head-dress, < icpvirmv (perf. Kt- 
, hide, cover: see crypt.] In Gr. antiq., 
a simple form 
of female 
head-dress, 
consisting of 
a net, or a 
light cloth or 
kerchief, so 
placed about 
the head as 
to inclose the 
hair com- 
pletely and 
almost with- 
out folds, 
and project- 
ing behind 
in a graceful 
curve. It is 
common in works of art of the fifth and fourth centuries 
B. c., being beautifully illustrated on some Syracusan 
coins ; and it is still worn in exactly the ancient form by 
many Greek peasant women. 
keldH, " A Middle English form of cheld. 
keld 2 (keld), . t< Icel. kelda = Sw. kalla = Dan. 
kilde (cf. Finn, kaltio, < Scand.), a spring, foun- 
tain, well; from the verb represented by OHG. 
quellan, MHG. G. quellen, swell, spring, gush 
(AS. pp. collen, swollen), > quelle, a spring, 
fountain, source.] A spring. [North. Eng.] 
keldt, a. See Jcelled. 
kelder (kel'der), n. 
[A var. of keeler 2 , 
perhaps after the re- 
lated keldi.~\ A cool- 
er ; especially, a large 
vat or caldron used 
in brewing. 
kelet, v. A Middle 
English form of keefi. 
kelebe (kel' e -be), n. 
[< Gr. KeMfri (see 
def.).] In Gr. archce- 
ol., a large ovoid, 
wide-mouthed vase, 
with a broad flat rim 
and two handles con- 
necting the rim and the body, and not extend- 
ing above the rim. 
keif *t (ielf), n. [Origin obscure.] A foolish fel- 
low. 
One squire Eneas, a great keif, 
Some wandering hangman like herself. 
Cotton, Works (1734), p. 85. 
keif 2 (keif ),. [Origin obscure.] Incoal-mining, 
the vertical height of the back of the excavation 
in holing or undercutting the coal. [Derbyshire 
and Leicestershire, Eng.] 
keling, . See keeling 2 . 
Figure of Aphrodite, wearing the Kekrypha- 
*. Fron ''- ' ' -'"-- =t 
tury B. C., 
ios. From a polychrome kyhx of the stn 
~ r in the British Museum. 
Kelebe. Greek red-figured 
Pottery. 
kelotomia 
kelis (ke'lis), n. [NL. : see chcloid 2 .] In pa- 
thol.: (a) Morphoea. (6) Cheloid. Also keloid. 
Addison's kelis, morphcea. 
kelk 1 (kelk), n. [< ME. kelk, roe; cf. OHG. 
clielch, MHG. kelch, struma.] The roe of a fish. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Take the Tcelkes of fysshe anon 
And tho lyver of tho fysshe, sethe horn alon. 
Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 19. 
kelk 2 (kelk), v. i. [Prob. imitative, like belk, 
belch.] To belch; also, to groan. [Prov. Eng.] 
kelk 3 (kelk), .. [Perhaps < Gael, and Ir. clach, 
a stone.] A large stone or detached rock. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
kelk 4 (kelk), v. t. [Supposed to have mean t orig. 
'stone,' pelt with stones, < kelk&, .] To beat 
soundly. [Prov. Eng.] 
kelk 4 (kelk), n. [< kelk*, v.~\ A blow. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
kelk 5 (kelk), n. [Cf . fr* 3 .] 1 . The wild cher- 
vil, Anthriscus sylvestris. 2. The poison hem- 
lock, Conitim maculatum Broad kelk, broad- 
leafed kelk, Seracleum Sphondylium. 
kell ' (kel), n. [A var. of caul 1 , call 2 : see cauZ 1 .] 
A covering of some kind ; a film or membrane ; 
a network. [Obsolete or provincial in all uses.] 
Being found, lie finde an urne of gold, t' enclose them, 
and betwixt 
The ayre and them two keU of fat lay on them. 
Chapman, 1 liad, xxiii. 
Specifically (a) The caul or omentum. 
Ill have him [the hart] cut to the kett, then down the 
seams. Beau, and Fl., Philaster, v. 4. 
(6) The membrane or caul which sometimes envelops the 
head of a child at birth. 
A silly jealous fellow, . . . seeing his child new born 
included in a kell, thought sure a Franciscan . . . was the 
father of it, it was so like a friar's cowl. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 617. 
(c) The chrysalis of an insect. 
The o'ergrown trees among, 
With caterpillars' kelis and dusky cobwebs hung. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 120. 
(d) A net ; especially, a net in which women inclose their 
hair ; the back part of a cap. 
Hir bake and hir breste was brochede alle over, 
With kelle and with corenalle clenliche arrayede. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3259. 
And as it ffalls out, many times 
As knotts been knitt on a kell, 
Or merchant men gone to leeve London, 
Either to buy ware or sell. 
ChUde Maurice (Child's Ballads, II. 314). 
(e) A film. 
His wakeful eyes . . . 
Now covered over with dim cloudy kelis. 
Drayton, The Owl. 
(/) One of the dew-covered threads often seen on the grass 
in the morning. 
Neither the immoderate moisture of July, August, and 
September, nor those kelis, which, like cobwebs, do some- 
times cover the ground, do beget the rot in sheep. 
Boyle, Works, VL 368. 
kell 2 (kel), n. A variant of kill 2 , kiln. 
kel! 3 t, n. Same as kale, 2. 
kellaut, . See killut. 
kelleck, . See killock. 
kelledt (keld), a. [< kelli + -ed 2 .] Having a 
kell or covering ; having the parts united as by 
a kell or thin membrane ; webbed. Also keld. 
And feeds on fish, which under water still 
He with his keld feet and keen teeth doth kill. 
Drayton, Noah's Flood. 
Kellia (kel'i-a), n. [NL., named after J. M. 
Cf Kelly of Dublin.] The typical genus of Kel- 
liiila: The shell is small, thin, and rounded, with the 
ligament internal, the cardinal teeth 1 or 2 in number, 
and the lateral teeth 1-1 in each valve. There are numer- 
ous species, both recent and fossil, such as the British K. 
euborbicularis and K. nitida. 
Kelliidse (ke-U'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Kellia + 
-iil(i'.\ A family of siphonate bivalve mollusks, 
typified by the genus Kellia. They are small but 
elegant bivalves, living in the crevices of rocks, or on 
shells or seaweeds, or lying free. Also written Kelliadce. 
kellin (kel 'in), .. [Perhaps a corruption of 
keeling 2 .'} The ling. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
kellock (kel'ok), n. See killock. 
kellow (kel '6), n. [Cf. killoic, collow.~] Black- 
lead. [Prov. Eng.] 
kelly (kel'i), n. [Cf. colly 1 .] In brick-making, 
surface-soil or mold. C. T. Daris. Bricks, etc., 
p. 103. 
kelly (kel'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. kellicd, ppr. 
kellying. [<. kelly, n.~\ In brick-making, to cover 
with soil or mold. 
keloid (ke'loid), . Same as clicloid and kelis. 
keloidal (ke-loi'dal), a. [< keloid + -al.~\ Of, 
pertaining to. or of the nature of keloid. 
Slight keloidal growths sometimes follow in the wake of 
the largest vesicles. Medical News, LIII. 442. 
kelotomia, kelotomy (kel-o-to'mi-a, ke-lot'o- 
mi), w. See celotomi/. 
