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Keeping


KEE'PING, participle present tense Holding; restraining; preserving; guarding; protecting; performing.

KEE'PING, noun 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.