Housekeeper, 1) one who keeps much at home: “you are manifest --s,” Cor. I, 3, 55.
2) one that guards the house: “the h., the hunter,” Mcb. III, 1, 97.
3) of uncertain signification: “to be said an honest man and a good h. goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar,” Tw. IV, 2, 10 (the clown's speech).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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