n. A possessor; a holder. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. haver; akin to G. haber. ] The oat; oats. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Haver bread, oaten bread. --
Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. --
Haver grass, the wild oat. --
Haver meal, oatmeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. [ 1913 Webster ]

By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A boy; a lad; a little fellow. [ Colloq. ] “These unlucky little shavers.” Salmagundi. [ 1913 Webster ]

As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mech.) A tool or machine for shaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]