harbor

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships.
2. n. A place of shelter; a refuge.
3. v. To give shelter to: harbor refugees; harbor a fugitive.
4. v. To provide a place, home, or habitat for: a basement that harbors a maze of pipes; streams that harbor trout and bass.
5. v. To entertain or nourish (a specified thought or feeling): harbor a grudge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A place of shelter; a lodging; an inn.
2. n. Specifically The covert of the hart or hind.
3. n. Accommodation; lodging; shelter; refuge.
4. n. A port or haven for ships; a sheltered recess in the coast-line of a sea, gulf, bay, or lake, most frequently at the mouth of a river. Harbors are often formed artificially, either in whole or in part, by the building of moles, breakwaters, or piers, and sometimes by large floating masses of timber, which rise and fall with the tide.
5. n. In glass-making, a chest 6 or 7 feet long which holds the mixed ingredients before they are put into the pot for fusion.
6. To provide a lodging or lodging-place for; lodge.
7. To give shelter to; protect; secure; secrete: as, to harbor a thief.
8. Hence To entertain; cherish; indulge: as, to harbor malice or revenge.
9. To trace home, as a deer to its covert; earth.
10. Synonyms Foster, etc. See cherish.
11. To lodge; dwell.
12. To receive shelter or protection; be entertained; be secreted.
13. To find a harbor; anchor in a harbor, as a ship.
14. n. An obsolete form of arbor, a garden, etc.

Wiktionary

1. n. A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.
2. n. Any place of shelter.
3. v. transitive To provide a harbor or safe place for.
4. v. intransitive To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
5. v. transitive To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
2. n. obsolete Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.
3. n. (Astrol.), obsolete The mansion of a heavenly body.
4. n. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.
5. n. (Glass Works) A mixing box for materials.
6. v. To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought).
7. v. To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)
2. v. maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
3. n. a place of refuge and comfort and security
4. n. a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
5. v. hold back a thought or feeling about
6. v. keep in one's possession; of animals