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maintain in safety form injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"

a reservation where animals are protected

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

a reservation where animals are protected

a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.

To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.

To make preserves.

To protect game for purposes of sport.

That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.

A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

To keep from injury; defend; uphold; save; keep in a wholesome state; put up with sugar, salt, etc., for keeping; as, to preserve fruit; keep up; maintain.

Fruit, etc., put up and kept in sugar; a place set apart for keeping game, fish, etc.

Preservable.

Preserver.

Preserver.

To keep from injury: to defend: to keep in a sound state: to season for preservation: to keep up, as appearances.

That which is preserved, as fruit, etc.: a place for the protection of animals, as game, etc.

Fruit, &c., prepared by boiling in sirup; place where game is preserved.

Preserveation.

To rescue; keep from injury; keep; prepare for keeping.

A place in which game is preserved.

Fruit or vegetable seasoned and kept in sugar; a place for the preservation of game.

To keep from injury; to uphold; to keep in a sound state; to season with sugar or other substances for preservation; to keep from corruption.

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to keep from decay or in a sound state; to secure; to defend; to maintain, as appearances; to boil with sugar to keep from decay.

A fruit or vegetable boiled with sugar, to keep it from decay, and to render it pleasant to the taste; a place set apart for the shelter and protection of game intended for sport.

n. Fruit, or the like, seasoned and kept by suitable preparation ;-a place for the shelter or preservation of game, fish, or the like.