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The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. [Obs. or Scot.] T. Adams.

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

The keeper of a prison. [Obs.] Shak.

The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [Eng.]…

The office of the keeper of a forest or park. [Eng.]

One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.

A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden.

Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

oting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more Milton.

A stable keeper. De Foe.

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.

up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door…

A keeper of swine.

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]