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One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.

The office or position of a keeper. Carew.

lding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation. His happiness is in his own keeping. South.

Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

See Kish.

To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

See Keeve, n.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

eir relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transactio…

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A female cook. [R.]

son employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. [Obs.] Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.

or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.