shopkeeping (shopke"ping)

The busine of keeping a shop for the sale of goods by retail. shopliftt (shop'lift), n. [ This is to give notice that those who have sustained any lo at Sturbridge Fair last, by Pick Pockets or Shop lifts , If they please to apply themselves to John Bonner in Shorts Gardens, they may receive information and a istance therein. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of [Queen Anne, II. 232.