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Haveless
(Have"less), a. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.
Havelock
(Hav"e*lock) n. [From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of
1857.] A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
Haven
(Ha"ven) n. [AS. hæfene; akin to D. & LG. haven, G. hafen, MHG. habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn,
Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave (see Heave); or akin to AS. hæf sea,
Icel. & Sw. haf, Dan. hav, which is perh. akin to E. heave.]
1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for
shipping; a harbor; a port.
What shipping and what lading 's in our haven.
Shak.
Their haven under the hill.
Tennyson. 2. A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. Shak.
The haven, or the rock of love.
Waller. Haven
(Ha"ven), v. t. To shelter, as in a haven. Keats.
Havenage
(Ha"ven*age) n. Harbor dues; port dues.
Havened
(Ha"vened) p. a. Sheltered in a haven.
Blissful havened both from joy and pain.
Keats. Havener
(Ha"ven*er) n. A harbor master. [Obs.]
Haver
(Ha"ver) n. A possessor; a holder. Shak.
Haver
(Hav"er), n. [D. haver; akin to G. haber.] The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Haver bread, oaten bread. — Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. — Haver grass, the wild
oat. — Haver meal, oatmeal.
Haver
(Ha"ver) v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Haversack
(Hav"er*sack) n. [F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a
bag.]
1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; — distinguished
from knapsack.
3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.
Haversian
(Ha*ver"sian) a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the
seventeenth century.
Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
Havildar
(||Hav`il*dar") n. In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers,
corresponding to a sergeant.
