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Preserves

noun

1.

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserve.

Preserve

verb

(past & past part. preserved; pres. part. preserving)

1.

Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last. Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold. "Continue the family tradition" , "Carry on the old traditions" Antonym: discontinue.

2.

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain. "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"

3.

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use. Synonym: save.

4.

Prevent (food) from rotting. Synonym: keep. "Keep potatoes fresh"

5.

Maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger. Synonym: keep.

6.

Keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing.

noun

1.

A domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone.

2.

A reservation where animals are protected.

3.

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves.

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"Preserves" Quotes from Famous Books

... a-poaching into our preserves somehow. He's evidently sweet upon the young woman, and is a more fashionable chap than either of us two. We must get him out of the house, sir—we must circumwent him; and THEN, Mr. Eglantine, will be time enough for you and me to try which is the ...

— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray

... time to receive their guests. This is a very expensive mode of entertaining, and costs from 5000 to 15,000 dollars, for the caterer expects a liberal profit on everything he provides; but to those who can afford it, it is a very sensible plan. It saves an immense amount of trouble at home, and preserves one's carpets and furniture from the damage invariably done to them on such occasions, and averts all possibility of robbery by the strange servants one is forced to employ. Still, many who possess large and elegant mansions of their own prefer to ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... Excellency the value of a Sikh soldier, and we feel very grateful that the military authorities recognize the necessity of requiring every Sikh recruit to be baptized according to the Sikh religion before admission to the Army—a practice which makes the Sikhs more true and faithful, and which preserves the existence of a very useful community. The Sikhs are said to be born soldiers, but they undoubtedly make very good citizens in time of peace also. Unfortunately, however, they have had no opportunity of fully developing their mental powers, so as to enable them ...

— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts

... couched a lance behind him but believed Colonel Kirby some sort of super-man; and, in return, Colonel Kirby found the regiment so satisfying that there was not even a lady on the sky-line who could look forward to encroaching on the regiment's preserves. ...

— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy

... flows in a direction nearly opposite to that of the Thames, namely, from south-east to north-west. It preserves almost a perfectly straight course in passing through Paris, except that it bends considerably to the south immediately before leaving the town. The river, as it flows through the heart of the city, is ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 494. • Various

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