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A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

t is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]

cept possession of; to take or accept. Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me Shak.

Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.

A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

orage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port. What shipping and what lading's in our haven. Shak. Their haven under the hill. Tennyson.

Harbor dues; port dues.

Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.

A harbor master. [Obs.]

The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.

A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]

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.

rd or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. Shak.

An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix. 27.

sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven. D. Webster.

To render like heaven or fit for heaven. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies.

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv. 48.