And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden,
to dress it and to keep it.
Gen. ii. 15.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
Carew.
8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a
journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.
9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to
conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
Like a pedant that keeps a school.
Shak.
Every one of them kept house by himself.
Hayward.
10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep
boarders.
11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a
servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.