TO KEEP. To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit won't keep; your daughter will not preserve her virginity.
TO KEEP IT UP. To prolong a debauch. We kept it up
finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle-cock.
KEEPING CULLY. One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes,
for his own use, but really for that of the public.
KEFFEL. A horse. WELSH.
KELTER. Condition, order. Out of kelter; out of order.
KELTER. Money.
KEMP'S MORRIS. William Kemp, said to have been the original
Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris
from London to Norwich in nine days: of which he
printed the account, A. D. 1600, intitled, Kemp's Nine
Days Wonder, &c.
KEMP'S SHOES. Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after
you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable
for his good luck or fortune; throwing an old shoe, or shoes,
after any one going on an important business, being by the
vulgar deemed lucky.
KEN. A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Biting the ken; robbing the house. CANT.
KEN MILLER, or KEN CRACKER. A housebreaker. CANT.