Word Meanings - CALIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. Shak.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• ARQUEBUSADE
  1. The shot of an arquebus. Ash. 2. A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Parr.
• REGULAR
  Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
• HAVOC
  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. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• ARQUEBUS; ARQUEBUSE
  A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• HAVILDAR
  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.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.