Discreet; chaste; keepers at home.
Titus ii. 5.
5. A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place;
as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes,
when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A
loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
6. A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
Downing.
Keeper of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an officer who had the principal
government of all things relating to the forest. -- Keeper of the great
seal, a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The
office is now united with that of lord chancellor. [Eng.] -- Keeper of
the King's conscience, the lord chancellor; -- a name given when the
chancellor was an ecclesiastic. [Eng.] -- Keeper of the privy seal
(styled also lord privy seal), a high officer of state, through whose
hands pass all charters, pardons, etc., before they come to the great
seal. He is a privy councillor, and was formerly called clerk of the
privy seal. [Eng.] -- Keeper of a magnet, a piece of iron which
connects the two poles, for the purpose of keeping the magnetic power
undiminished; an armature.
Keep"er*ship (?), n. The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
Keep"ing, n. 1. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care;
preservation.
His happiness is in his own keeping.
South.
2. Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good
keeping.
The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.
Milton.
3. Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are
in keeping with each other.
4. (Paint.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a
work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.