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ty and comfort; a refuge; a shelter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.

One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

A shelter. [Obs]. Spenser.

Hospitable. [Obs.]

To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. W. Browne.

To drive from harbor or shelter.

Having no harbor or shelter; unprotected.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

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.

y; -- 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 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.

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.

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

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