HAVEN

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. Shak. The haven, or the rock of love. Waller.

3.
v.

To shelter, as in a haven. Keats.


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