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n. a tree (Blighia sapida) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty.
Syn. -- akee tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; the flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe.
Syn. -- ackee [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Russ. baidarka, dim. Cf. Baidar. ] A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [ Alaska ] The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. --
Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha&unr_; the one entry may check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Cherokee. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.A female cook. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ F. damaschinare. See Damascene, v. ] To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or “water” produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. [ 1913 Webster ]

Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as fakir.
Syn. -- fakir. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Naut.) A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Staying at home; not gadding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A staying at home. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an owner or manager of a hotel or hotels.
Syn. -- hotelkeeper, hotel manager, hotelman, hosteller. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to take care of all household-related business.
Syn. -- house-keep, maintain a household, keep house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who keeps or stays much at home. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You are manifest housekeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A house dog. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry?
Small housekeeping enough, said Phœbe. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an inn; the proprietor or manager of an inn or hotel.
Syn. -- innholder. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A drunken, dissolute fellow. [ Ireland ] S. C. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. of Cow. [ AS. c&ymacr_;, pl. of cū cow. See Kine. ] See Kie, Ky, and Kine. [ Prov. Eng. ] Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. E. keech a cake. ] A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. cēlan to cool, fr. cōl cool. See Cool. ] To cool; to skim or stir. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. ceól ship; akin to D. & G. kiel keel, OHG. chiol ship, Icel. kjōll, and perh. to Gr. gay^los a round-built Phœnician merchant vessel, gaylo`s bucket; cf. Skr. gōla ball, round water vessel. But the meaning of the English word seems to come from Icel. kjölr keel, akin to Sw. köl, Dan. kjöl. ] 1. (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: The whole ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Nat. Hist.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bilge keel (Naut.), a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges. Ham. Nav. Encyc. --
False keel. See under False. --
Keel boat. (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on Western rivers. [ U. S. ] (b) A low, flat-bottomed freight boat. See Keel, n., 3. --
Keel piece, one of the timbers or sections of which a keel is composed. --
On even keel, in a level or horizontal position, so that the draught of water at the stern and the bow is the same. Ham. Nav. Encyc. --
On an even keel a. & adv., steady; balanced; steadily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Keeled p. pr. & vb. n. Keeling. ] 1. To traverse with a keel; to navigate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

To keel over, to upset; to capsize. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. guillage, fr. guille keel; of German or Scand origin. See 3d Keel. ] The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Keel. ] 1. One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Keel to cool + fat a large tub, a vat. ] (Brewing) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [ Written also keelvat. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Keelhauled p. pr. & vb. n. Keelhauling. ] [ 3d keel + haul: cf. LG. & D. kielhalen, G. kielholen. ] [ Written also keelhale. ] (Naut.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. keila, Sw. kolja, Dan. kulle. ] (Zool.) A cod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. cil ruddle. ] A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -men See Keeler, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To drop down in a faint, or as if dead; to die. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

v. t. (Naut.) Same as Keelhaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Ninepins. See Kayles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to Sw. kölsvin, Dan. kjölsviin, G. kielschwein; apparently compounded of the words keel and swine; but cf. Norweg. kjölsvill, where svill is akin to E. sill, n. ] (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Keelfat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. caoine. ] A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach. [ Ireland ] Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To wail as a keener does. [ Ireland ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Keener superl. Keenest. ] [ OE. kene sharp, bold, AS. cēne bold; akin to D. koen, OHG. kuoni, G. kühn, OSw. kyn, kön, Icel. kænn, for kœnn wise; perh. akin to E. ken, can to be able. √45. ] 1. Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bow he bare and arwes [ arrows ] bright and kene. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make our wits more keen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before the keen inquiry of her thought. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good father cardinal, cry thou amen
To my keen curses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc.; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite. “Of full kene will.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

So keen and greedy to confound a man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Wonderful; delightful; marvelous; as, that would be keen. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

☞ Keen is often used in the composition of words, most of which are of obvious signification; as, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, etc.

Syn. -- Prompt; eager; ardent; sharp; acute; cutting; penetrating; biting; severe; sarcastic; satirical; piercing; shrewd. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sharpen; to make cold. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold winter keens the brightening flood. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]