Word Meanings - HOME-KEEPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

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• GADDISH
  Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.
• STAYEDNESS
  1. Staidness. W. Whately. 2. Solidity; weight. Camden.
• GADDINGLY
  In a roving, idle manner.
• GADDING
  Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as
• STAY
  A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay. 3. Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
• STAYSHIP
  A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
• STAYNIL
  The European starling.
• STAYED
  Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid. Bacon. Pope.
• YOUTHSOME
  Youthful. Pepys.
• HOMELYN
  The European sand ray ; -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
• YOUTHY
  Young. Spectator.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• YOUTHFUL
  Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
• STAYLACE
  A lace for fastening stays.
• STAYMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make stays.
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• STAYLESS
  Without stop or delay. Mir. for Mag.
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• GADDER
  One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
• HOMELY
  1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray. 2. Plain; unpretending; rude
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• OVERSTAY
  To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time. Bp. Hall.
• FORESTAY
  A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
• JACKSTAY
  A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.
• BOOKKEEPER
  One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.