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Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought). Any place that harbors men. Shak. The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. Bp. Burnet. Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.…

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. -- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Che…

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.

h there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall he…

A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. Mitford.

aling; incapable of being deciphered. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. "Hopeful scholars." Addison. -- Hope"ful*ly, adv. -- Hope"ful*ness, n.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford.

A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.

The act of affording shelter in winter. [Obs.]

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer. Mitford.

Light-headed; foolish. [Obs.] Ford. Idle pulley (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power. -- Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolutio…