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To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor Dryden. The ancient grudge I bear him. Shak.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. With moles . . . would block the port. Rowe. A city . . . besieged and blocked about. Milton.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

water front. Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; -- usually, the harbor line.

or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight.

primer. -- Cannon metal. See Gun Metal. -- Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. -- Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. -- Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon.

ain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

rding to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.