n.
One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed. →
v. t.
To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession. →
See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose. →
v. t.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat. →