Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Harboring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Harbor \Har"bor\, v. t. [Written also {harbour}.] [imp. & p. p.
{Harbored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Harboring}.] [OE. herberen,
herberwen, herbergen; cf. Icel. herbergja. See {Harbor}, n.]
To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give
a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp.
an ill thought).

Any place that harbors men. --Shak.

The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person
suspected. --Bp. Burnet.

Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of
outrage. --Rowe.


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