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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

... supper. We had trout and the most delicious biscuit. Each of us had a crisp, tender head of lettuce with a spoonful of potato salad in the center. We had preserves made from canned peaches, and the firmest yellow butter. Soon it was quite dark and we had a tiny brass lamp which gave but a feeble light, but it was quite cool so we had a blazing fire which made it ...

— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... substance preserves faithfully the memory of habitual actions. {72} Perceptions which were once long and difficult, requiring constant and conscious attention, come to reproduce themselves in transient and abridged guise, without such duration and ...

— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler

... roast hot in the oven of the gasoline range. She herself spread one of mommie's cherished lunch cloths on Bedelia's little square table in the kitchen alcove, where she and Johnny could be alone while he ate. She dipped generously into the newest preserves and filled a glass dish full for him. She raided the great refrigerator, closing her eyes to the morrow's reckoning. Johnny would be hungry, Johnny was a sort of prodigal, and the fatted calf should be killed figuratively and the ring ...

— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... tell you. This man, as I say, is known to the police as Parson Homo. Apparently he is an unfrocked priest, one who has gone under. He still preserves the resemblance to a gentleman"—he spoke slowly and deliberately; "in decent clothes he would look like a parson. I propose that he shall marry me to Miss Cresswell. The marriage will be a fake, but neither the girl nor van Heerden will know this. If my surmise is right, when ...

— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... hand.' God is not a careless owner who leaves His treasures to be blown by every wind, or filched by every petty robber. He is not like the king of some decrepit monarchy, slices of whose territory his neighbours are for ever paring off and annexing. What God has God preserves. 'He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.' 'They are Mine, saith the Lord, My jewels in the day which I make.' But our security depends on our consecration. 'No man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand.' ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

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