Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Keeping \Keep"ing\, n.
   1. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care;
      preservation.

            His happiness is in his own keeping.  --South.

   2. Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have
      good keeping.

            The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.
                                                  --Milton.

   3. Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these
      subjects are in keeping with each other.

   4. (Paint.) Harmony or correspondence between the different
      parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this
      painting is not in keeping.

   {Keeping room}, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov.
      Eng.]

   Syn: Care; guardianship; custody; possession.