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The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

he footpath way. Shak. So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot. Milton . The good old ways our sires jogged safely over. R. Browning.

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

To put or keep in a kennel. Thomson.

of Keep. Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.

a problem. Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books. Locke. Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. Tennyson.

issus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress. -- Lavender water, a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris. -- Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.…

ng; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors. Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

on of the law and the intention of the lawgiver. Jer. Taylor. I broke the letter of it to keep the sense. Tennyson.

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river. [U. S.]

s, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. Licensed victualer, one who has a license to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery. What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly…

One who keeps a livery stable.

A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. Shak.

One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

d president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. -- Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. The office is now merged in that of the chancellor. -- Lord lieutenant, a representati…