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usiness of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

rnment, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]

o penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

See Paroquet, Parakeet.

Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.

The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.

A place for keeping and rearing pheasants. Gwilt.

To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. Shenstone.

To steal; to pilfer. "To keep my hands from picking and stealing." Book of Com. Prayer. To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]

Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. "Piercing eloquence." Shak. -- Pier"cing*ly, adv. -- Pier"cing*ness, n.

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.

A keeper of a turnpike gate. T. Hughes.

y little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.

One who impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]

Keenly felt desire; a longing. Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong. Hudibras.

See Pickeer. [R.]

See Pickeerer. [R.]