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The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. [U.S.]

Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

supply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

An innholder.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.…

See Marquee.

To keep wrongly. Chaucer.

Trousers made of nankeen. Ld. Lytton. Nankeen bird (Zoöl.), the Australian night heron (Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.

An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

A palanquin. Malcom.

Same as Parrakeet.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

One who pickeers. [Obs.]

The keeper of a pound.

A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]