haven 
Joppa is a City of Palestine that was built before the 
Flood, and hath belonging to it a Uamn of great Conve- 
nlenci. Baker, Chronicles, p. (>:). 
And the stately ships go on 
To their haven under the hill. 
Tennyson, Break, Break, Break. 
Hence 2. A shelter; an asylum; a place of 
safety. 
Where I sought hauen, there found I hap, 
From danger unto death. The Loner Discerned. 
Carlos, happy in the attachment of a brave and power- 
ful people, appeared at length to have reached a hacen of 
pernianent security. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 2. 
haven (ha'vn), v. t. [< haven, .] To shelter 
as in a haven. 
Blissfully havened both from joy and pain. Keats. 
havenage (ha'vn-aj), n. [< haven, n., + -age.] 
Harbor-dues. 
havener! (ha'vn-er), n. [< haven, n., + -er^.J 
The overseer of a port ; a harbor-master. 
These earls and dukes appoynted to this end their spe- 
cial officers as receyuer, hauener, and customer, etc. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 79. 
havenett (ha'vn-et), n. [< haven, n., + -eft.'] A 
small haven. 
From Langunda to Fischard at the Gwerne mouth foure 
miles, and here is a portlet or hauenet also for ships. 
Holimhed, Descrip. of Britain, xiv. 
haven-master (ha'vn-mas"ter), n. [= D. 
havenmeester = Dan. havnemester = Sw. luimn- 
mastare.} A harbor-master. 
The Haven Matter is an officer appointed under the 
charter of James I., by which the admiralty rights were 
acquired Ills duty is to superintend the harbour, at- 
tend to the mooring of the ships, prevent all annoyances 
to the shipping, and see that the bye-laws are observed. 
Municipal Corporation Report (1835X p. 2399. 
haven-townt, A seaport. 
Having now found a haven-town, the soldiers were de- 
sirous to take shipping, and change their tedious land- 
journeys into an easy navigation. 
Raleigh, Hist. World, III. x. 13. 
haver 1 (hav'er), . [< have + -ri.] 1. One 
who has or possesses ; a possessor. [Rare.] 
Valour is the chiefest virtue, and 
Most dignifies the haver. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. 
A princes favour Is a precious thing, 
Yet it doth many unto ruine bring ; 
Because the havers of it proudly use it, 
And (to their owne ambitious ends) abuse it 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
We are in thus holding or thus spending ... not only 
covetous, but wrongful!, or havers of more than our own, 
against the will of the right owners. 
Barrow, Works, I. xxxi. 
2. In Scots law, the holder of a deed or writing, 
who is called upon to produce it judicially, in 
modum probationis, or for inspection in the 
course of a process. 
haver 2 (hav'er), )?. [< ME. haver (rare) = 
Icel. (mod.) hafr = Sw. liafre = Dan. Havre, all 
prob. of LG. origin, < OLG. haboro, havoro, 
MLG. haver, LG. hawer = D. harcr = OHG. 7m- 
baro, MHG. habere, haber, G. haber (and hafcr, 
after LG.), oats. The orig. E. word is oats.} 
Oats ; the oat, Avena sativa. [North. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
haver 3 (ha'ver), v. i. [Origin uncertain.] To 
talk foolishly or at random. Also haiver. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
He just haver'd on about it to make the mair o' Sir Ar- 
thur. Scott, Antiquary, xllv. 
haverbread (hav'er-bred), . [< ME. haver- 
bred (= D. hacerbrood = G. haferbrod = Dan. 
havrebrod = Sw. hafrebrod); < haver? + bread^.} 
Bread made of oatmeal. See haver?. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
She gloried in her skill ... in making Jenny go short 
to save to-day's baking of havreljread. Cornhitt Magazine. 
havercake (hav'er-kak), n. [< ME. harercake; 
< /Mirer 2 + cake.] Same as haverbread. Also 
avercake. 
Tak a hate havyre-cake, and lay it downe, and lay thyne 
ere therone als hate als thou thole it, and if ther be schepe 
louse or any other qwik thynge in it, it salle sone crepe 
owte. MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, f. 283. (HaUiwett.) 
haverdepoiset, n. An old form of avoirdupois. 
haverel (hav'rel), H. and a. [< fctfWT 8 + -el, 
equiv. to -er 1 .] I. n. One who talks foolishly 
or idly; a silly chattering person. 
II. a. Silly; half-witted. 
Poor hav'rel Will fell aft the drift, 
An' wandered thro' the bow-kail. 
Burns, Halloween. 
Also spelled havrel, haveril. 
haverel (hav'rel), v. i.; pret. and pp. havereled 
Some of the ne'er-do-weel clerks of the town were seen 
guffawing and hacerelliny wi' Jeanie. 
Gait, Provost, p. 2/9. 
haver-grass (hav'er-gras), n. The wild oat, 
ACI-IIH fatua. [Prov. Eng.] 
havermeal (hav'er-mel), . [= D. havermeel 
= G. hafermehl = Dan. havremel.} Oatmeal. 
[Scotch.] 
Owhar got ye that haver-meal bannock? 
Bonny Dundee. 
havers 1 (ha'verz), n. pi. [A dial, form of ha- 
v lor, behavior. ] Manners; behavior. 
havers 2 (ha'verz), n. pi. [< haverf, c.l Fool- 
ish or idle talk. A.lso haivers. [Scotch.] 
Your fable instantlie repeat us, 
And dinna deave us wi' your havers. 
Rev. J. Nicol, Poems. 
haversack (hav'er-sak), n. [Formerly also 
havresaek; < F. havresac, < Gt. habersack, hafer- 
sack, prop, a sack for oats. < haber, hafer, oats, 
+ sack, sack: see haver? and sack 1 .] 1. A 
sack for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.] 2. 
A bag used for holding the food that a soldier 
carries on his person, as one or more days' ra- 
tions. It is usually carried by a belt slung over 
the shoulder. 
A long sword lay by him on the grass, with an havre- 
saek, of which he had unloaded his shoulders. 
Smollett, tr. of Gil Bias, ii. 8. 
3. In artillery, a leather bag used to carry car- 
tridges from the ammunition-chest to the piece 
in loading. 
Haversian (ha-ver'zian), . [< Havers (see 
def.) + -tan.] Pertaining to or discovered by 
Clopton Havers, a London anatomist (about 
1690), who investigated the blood-vascular sys- 
tem of bone Haversian canal. See canafl. Ha- 
versian folds, fringes of synovial membrane found in 
most of the bursal and vaginal as well as in the articu- 
lar synovial membranes, described by Clopton Havers as 
mucilaginous glands, and as the source of the synovial 
secretion. H. Gray. Anat. Haversian or Havers s 
glands. See gland. Haversian lamellse. See inmrf- 
Frt, Haversian spaces. See Hnversian canal, under 
canali. 
haverstraw (hav'er-stra), n. [< ME. haver- 
straa; < haver? + straw.} The straw of oats. 
[Obsolete or Scotch.] 
Take and make lee of havyre-straa, and wasche the hede 
therwith ofte, and sail do hare awaye. 
MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, f. 282. (Halliwell.) 
haw 
haviort, haviourt, [Early mod. K. also 
haveoiir; by apheresis from behavior, q. v.] 
Same as behavior. 
The men of 'haviour and honest citizens walked in the 
market place in their long gowns. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 129. 
Her heavenly haoeour, her princely grace, 
Can you well compare? Spenser, Shep. Cal., Apnl. 
With the same haviour that your passion bears, 
Go on my master's griefs. Shak., T. N., ill. 4. 
havoc, havock (hav'ok), . [Early mod. E. 
luu-ock, havocke; < ME. havok, harck, havec, < 
AS. hafoc, hafuc, a hawk: see /lairfci, of which 
havoc is the native (AS.) form, as hawk^ ; s 
the Scand. form, haoock, commonly havoc (ME. 
havok), remaining only in the deflected use 
(def. 2), which arises out of the phrase to 
cry havoc, that is, to cry "havoc!" 'to cry 
"hawk!"' appar. orig. a cry of encouragement 
to a hawk when loosed upon his prey, or a mere 
cry of excitement or warning at the beginning 
of the sport. Cf. the exclamation ware the 
hawk! (Skelton, etc.)] If. An early Middle 
English form of hawk\ surviving till later times 
in the phrase to cry havoc. 2. General and 
relentless destruction. 
Gin they had to hurkle down on a heap of haver straw. 
Blackwood's Mag., Nov., 1820, p. 146. 
havil (hav'il), n. [Origin obscure.] A small 
'Ene.1 
or litirerelled, ppr. havereling or harerelling. [< 
harerel, ,] To talk idly or foolishly, 
spelled havrel, hacril. [Scotch.] 
Also 
1C* J i \"" "/ J "' L. O 
species of crab. [Eng.] 
havildar (hav'il-dar), n. [Anglo-Ind., < Hmd. 
hawdlddr, < hawdlu, charge, custody, care, + 
-ddr, having, possessing, keeper.] The high- 
est non-commissioned officer in a native regi- 
ment in India ; a sepoy sergeant. The term is 
adopted in the British Indian army for a native 
sergeant. 
Curreem Musseeh was, I believe, a havildar in the Com- 
pany's army, and his sword and sash were still hung up, 
with a not unpleasing vanity, over the desk where he now 
presided as catechist. 
Bu. Ueber. Journey through the Upper Provinces 
[of India, i. 149. 
havill, . See havil. 
having (hav'ing), n. [< ME. havyno; verbal n. 
of have. .] 1. The act or state of possessing. 
And, having that, do choke their service up 
Even with the having. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 
2. That which is had or owned ; possessions ; 
goods ; estate. 
But I pardon you for that ; for, simply, your hairing in 
beard is a vouncer brother's revenue. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, 
all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the 
reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. 
Emerson, Woman. 
3 (ha'ving). Behavior; conduct; especially, 
good behavior; good manners; good breed- 
ing: now usually in the plural. [Scotch.] 
My poor toop-lamb, my son and heir, 
Oh, bid him breed him up wi' care ; 
An' if he live to be a beast, 
To pit some havins in his breast ! 
Burns, Death of Poor Mailie. 
She is may be four or five years younger than the like o' 
me bye and attour her gentle havings. 
Scott, Eedgauntlet, letter xn. 
having (hav'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of have, v.} Cov- 
etous ; grasping. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
The apostles that wanted money are not so havinfl: 
Judas hath the bag, and yet he must have more, or he will 
filch it. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 249. 
Martha, more lax on the subject of primogeniture, was 
sorry to think that Jane was so having. 
George Eliot, Mlddlemarch, xxxv. 
To geue skope to all raskall and forlorne persones to 
make general! hauock and spoyle of your goodes. 
Grafton, Queen Mary, an. 1. 
And neuer yet did Insurrection want 
Such water-colours, to impaint his cause : 
Nor moody Beggars, staruing for a time, 
Of pell-mell hauocke and confusion. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 1 (folio 1623). 
Ye gods ! What havock does ambition make 
Among your works! Addison, Cato, ii. 1. 
To cry havoc or havock. (at) See the etymology. (&) 
To shout for the beginning or the continuation of a work 
of indiscriminate destruction or rapine. 
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 
With AW by his side, come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, 
Cry Havock, and let slip the dogs of war. 
havoc, havock (hav'ok), v. t.; pret, and pp. hao- 
ocked, ppr. havocking. [< havoc, havock, ., 2.] 
To work general destruction upon ; devastate ; 
destroy; lay waste. 
Whatsoever they leave unspent, the soldiour, when he 
cometh there, he havocketh and spoyleth likewise. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
The Weazell, . . . 
Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat, 
To tame and hauocke more than she can eate. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 2 (folio 1623). 
To waste and havoc yonder world. 
Milton, P. L., x. 617. 
havoirt, havoiirt, " Middle English forms of 
aver?. 
Havoire withoute possessioun. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4720. 
havrel (hav'rel), ., a., and v. See haverel. 
havril (hav'ril), v. i. See haverel. 
haw 1 (ha), . [< ME. Jiaice, earlier hage, < AS. 
haga, an inclosure, a yard, small field, = MD. 
hage, haeghe, a hedge, an inclosure, D. haag, a 
hedge ( > F. haie, a hedge) (cf . den Haag, J Hage, 
in full tP Gravenhage, in E. called The Hague, 
in F. La Haye, lit. the grave's or count's gar- 
den: see grave^); = Icel. hagi = Sw. hage, a 
hedged field, a pasture, = ODan. hage, a hedged 
field, a pasture, Dan. have, a garden ; also with- 
out suffix, OHG. hag, hoc, an inclosure, MHG. 
hac, a thorn-bush, bush, hedge, inclosure, park. 
G. hag, a bush, hedge, coppice, grove, wood, 
fence, inclosure, = ODan. hag, a hedge ; whence 
OHG. hagan, a bush, hedge, MHG. hagen, and 
contr. 7mm, G. hain, a grove, wood. Cf . L. cin- 
gere, gird (> E. ceint, cincture, surcingle, etc.), 
coxa, thigh, hip ; Skt. katikana, a ring-shaped 
ornament, bracelet, kaTcsha, region of the girth, 
girdle, cincture, a circular wall, inclosed court. 
Closely connected with AS. haga, E. hatc\ are 
E. dial, hag?, a haw, hedge, AS. hege, E. hay, 
a hedge, and AS.*hecg, E. hedge: see hag?, hay' 2 , 
andhedge, also hag 1 , haw?, and haitf/h.] 1. An 
inclosed piece of land; a hedged inclosure; a 
small field; a yard. 
Ther was a polcat in his hawe, 
That, as he seyde, his capouns hadde yslawe. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 393. 
St. Mary Bothaw hath the addition of Boathhaw, or 
Boathaw, of neare adjoining to an haw or yarde, wherein 
of old time boates were made. Stowe, London, p. 181. 
Specifically 2. A churchyard. Chaucer. 3. 
A green plot in a valley. Halliwell. 
To the highlands I was Down, 
To view the haws of Cromdale. 
The Haws of Cromdale (Child's Ballads, VII. 235). 
haw 2 (ha), n. [< ME. hawe, < AS. haga, only in 
pi. iKKjan, haws, also appar. as a synonym for 
