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One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. The Lord is thy keeper. Ps. cxxi. 6.

The office or position of a keeper. Carew.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

son employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. [Obs.] Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

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.

An innholder.

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

The keeper of a pound.

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

The warden, or keeper of a jail.

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper.

iginally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.