Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAU'TEUR, n. [Fr.]

Pride; haughtiness; insolent manner or spirit.

HAUT-GOUT, n. [ho goo; Fr.]

High relish or scent.

HAUYNE, n.

A mineral called by Haüy latialite, occurring in grains or small masses, and also in groups of minute, shining crystals. Its color is blue, of various shades. It is found imbedded in volcanic rocks, basalt, clinkstone, &c. Cleaveland.

HAVE, v.t. [hav. pret. and pp. had. Indic. present, I have, thou hast, he has; we, ye, they have. Sax. habban; Goth. haban; G. haben; D. hebben; Sw. hafva; Dan. haver; L. habeo; Sp. haber; Port. haver. It. avere; Fr. avoir; W. hafiaw, to snatch or seize hastily, and hapiaw, to happen. The Spanish haber unites have with happen; haber, to have or possess, to take, to happen or befall. The primary sense then is to fall on, or to rush on and seize. See Happen. Class Gb, No. 74, 79.]

1. To possess; to bold in possession or power. How many loaves have ye? Matth. xv. He that gathered much had nothing over. Ex. xvi. I have a Levite to my priest. Judges xvii. To have and to hold, terms in a deed of conveyance.
2. To possess, as something that is connected with, or belongs to one. Have ye a father? Have ye another brother? Gen. xliii and xliv. Sheep that have no shepherd. 1 Kings xxii.
3. To marry; to take for a wife or husband. In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Math. xxii.
4. To hold; to regard. Thus, To have in honor, is to hold in esteem; to esteem; to honor. To have in derision or contempt, to hold in derision or contempt; to deride; to despise.
5. To maintain; to hold in opinion. Sometimes they will have them to be the natural heat; sometimes they will have them to be the qualities of the tangible parts. Bacon.
6. To be urged by necessity or obligation; to be under necessity, or impelled by duty. I have to visit twenty patients every day. We have to strive against temptations. We have to encounter strong prejudices. The nation has to pay the interest of an immense debt.
7. To seize and hold; to catch. The hound has him. [The original, but now a vulgar use of the word.]
8. To contain. The work has many beauties and many faults.
9. To gain; to procure; to receive; to obtain; to purchase. I had this cloth very cheap. He has a guinea a month. He has high wages for his services.
10. To bring forth, to produce, as a child. Had rather, denotes wish or preference. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Ps. lxxiv. Is not this phrase a corruption of would rather ? To have after, to pursue. [Not much used, nor elegant.] Shak. To have away, to remove; to take away. Tusser. To have at, to encounter; to assail; as, to have at him; to have at you. [Legitimate, but vulgar.] To enter into competition with; to make trial with. Shak. Dryden uses in a like sense, have with you; but these uses are inelegant. To have in, to contain. To have on, to wear; to carry, as raiment or weapons. He saw a man who had not on a wedding garment. Matth xxii. To have out, to cause to depart. 2 Sam. xiii. To have a care, to take care; to be on the guard, or to guard. To have pleasure, to enjoy. To have pain, to suffer. To have sorrow, to be grieved or afflicted. With would and should. He would have, he desires to have, or he requires. He should have, he ought to have. But the various uses of have in such phrases, and its uses as an auxiliary verb, are fully explained in grammars. As an auxiliary, it assists in forming the perfect tense, as I have formed, thou hast formed, he had or hath formed, we have formed; and the prior-past tense, as I had seen, thou hadst seen, he had seen. [“To have and to be. The distinction is marked in a beautiful sentiment of a German poet: – Hast thou any thing? Share it with me, and I will pay thee the worth of it. Art thou any thing? O then, let us exchange souls.” Dr. Southey's Omniana, i. 237. – EHB.]

HAVE'LESS, a. [hav'less.]

Having little or nothing. [Not in use.] Gower.

HA'VEN, n. [ha'vn; Sax. hæfan; D. haven; Dan. havn; Fr. hâvre; Arm. haffn; G. hafen; from haber, a Gaulish word, signifying the mouth of a river, says Lunier. But in Welsh, hav is summer, and havyn is a flat, extended, still place, and a haven.]

1. A harbor; a port; a bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river which affords good anchorage and a safe station for ships; any place in which ships can be sheltered by the land from the force of tempests and a violent sea.
2. A shelter; an asylum; a place of safety. Shak.

HA'VEN-ER, n.

The overseer of a port; a harbor-master. [Not used.] Carew.

HAV'ER, n.

One who has or possesses; a possessor; a holder. [Little used.] Shak.

HAV'ER, n. [G. hafer; D. haver; perhaps L. avena.]

Oats; a word of local use in the north of England; as, haverbread, oaten bread.] Johnson.

HAV'ER-SACK, n. [Fr. havre-sac.]

A soldier's knapsack.

HAV'ING, n.

1. Possession; goods; estate. Shak.
2. The act or state of possessing. Sidney.

HAV'ING, ppr. [from have.]

Possessing; holding in power or possession; containing; gaining; receiving; taking.

HAV'OC, n. [W. havog, a spreading about, waste, devastation; havogi, to commit waste, to devastate; supposed to be from hav, a spreading. But qu. Ir. arvach, havoc.]

Waste; devastation; wide and general destruction. Ye gods! What havoc does ambition make / Among your works. Addison. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii.

HAV'OC, v.t.

To waste; to destroy; to lay waste. To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton.

HAW, n. [Sax. hæg, hag, G. heck, D. haag, heg, Dan. hek, hekke, a hedge.]

1. The berry and seed of the hawthorn, that is, hedge-thorn. Bacon.
2. [Sax. haga.] A small piece of ground adjoining a house; a small field; properly, an inclosed piece of land, from hedge, like garden, which also signifies an inclosure. [Dan. hauge, a garden.]
3. In farriery, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse. Encyc.
4. A dale. [Obs.] Chaucer.

HAW, v.i. [corrupted from hawk, or hack.]

To stop in speaking with a haw, or to speak with interruption and hesitation; as, to hem and haw. L'Estrange.

HAW'FINCH, n.

A bird, a species of Loxia.

HAW'HAW, n. [duplication of haw, a hedge.]

A fence or bank that interrupts an alley or walk, sunk between slopes and not perceived till approached. Chalmers.

HAW'ING, ppr.

Speaking with a haw, or with hesitation.

HAWK, n. [Sax. hafoc; D. havik; G. habicht; Sw. hök; Dan. hög, höög; W. hebog, named from heb, utterance.]

A genus of fowls, the Falco, of many species, having a crooked beak, furnished with a cere at the base, a cloven tongue, and the head thick set with feathers. Most of the species are rapacious, feeding on birds or other small animals. Hawks were formerly trained for sport or catching small birds.

HAWK, n.

An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

HAWK, v.i.

1. To catch or attempt to catch birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry. He that hawks at larks and sparrows. Locke. A falc'ner Henry is, when Emma hawks. Prior.
2. To fly at; to attack on the wing; with at. To hawk at flies. Dryden.

HAWK, v.i. [W. hoçi; Scot. hawgh. Qu. Chal. כיח, and keck and cough. See Class Gk, No. 5, 29, 36.]

To make an effort to force up phlegm with noise; as, to hawk and spit. Shak. Harvey. To hawk up, transitively; as, to hawk up phlegm.

HAWK, v.t. [Qu. G. hocken, to take on the back; höcken, to higgle; höcker, a huckster; or the root of L. auctio, auction, a sale by outcry. The root of the latter probably signified to cry out.]

To cry; to offer for sale by outcry in the street, or to sell by outcry; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.

HAWK'ED, pp.

1. Offered for sale by outcry in the street.
2. adj. Crooked; curving like a hawk's bill.