Part 741

Keats.

Ha"ven*er (h"v'n*r), n. A harbor master. [Obs.]

Ha"ver (hv"r), n. A possessor; a holder. Shak.

Hav"er, n. [D. haver; akin to G. haber.] The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.

Ha"ver (h"vr), v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Hav"er*sack (hv"r*sk), n. [F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag.]

1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]

2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

Ha*ver"sian (h*vr"shan), a. 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.

||Hav`il*dar" (hv`l*d‰r"), n. In the British Indian armies, a ||noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a ||sergeant.

Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.

Hav"ing (hv"ng), n. Possession; goods; estate.

I 'll lend you something; my having is not much.

Shak.

Hav"ior (hv"yr), n. [OE. havour, a corruption of OF. aveir, avoir, a having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to confusion with E. have.] Behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] Shak.

Hav"oc (hv"k), n. [W. hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or rapacious bird, or F. hai, voux! a cry to hounds.] Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.

Acts viii. 3.

Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works!

Addison.

Hav"oc, v. t. To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

To waste and havoc yonder world.

Milton.

Hav"oc, interj. [See Havoc, n.] A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Toone.

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.