To have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard.To have (a man) out, to engage (one) in a duel.To have done See under Do, v. i.To have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion.To have on, to wear. - - To have to do with. See under Do, v. t.

Syn. — To possess; to own. See Possess.

11. To understand.

You have me, have you not?
Shak.

12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang]

Have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the state indicated by the participle; as, I have conquered him, I have or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this independent significance, and is used with the participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past time. Had is used, especially in poetry, for would have or should have.

Myself for such a face had boldly died.
Tennyson.


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