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ccept 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.

horage 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.

ge or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

The chub. Walton.

See Drawing knife.

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.

obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. Chaucer.

A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt. I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. Sir W. Scott.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.