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A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

A barkeeper.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. [R.] Shak.

An innkeeper.

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

rtars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. Acts. xxi. 15.

One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed service…

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used conteptuously.

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.