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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hast \Hast\ (h[a^]st), 2d pers. sing. pres. of {Have}, contr. of havest. [Archaic] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Have \Have\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Had}; p. pr & vb n. {Having}. Indic. present, I {have}, thou {hast}, he {has}; we ye they {have}.] [OE. haven, habben AS habben (imperf. h[ae]fde, p. p. geh[ae]fd); akin to OS hebbian, D. hebben, OFries hebba OHG. hab?n, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw hafva Dan. have Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere whence F. avoir. Cf {Able}, {Avoirdupois}, {Binnacle}, {Habit}.] 1. To hold in possession or control; to own as he has a farm. 2. To possess, as something which appertains to is connected with or affects, one The earth hath bubbles, as the water has --Shak. He had a fever late. --Keats. 3. To accept possession of to take or accept Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me? --Shak. 4. To get possession of to obtain; to get --Shak. 5. To cause or procure to be to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. It had the church accurately described to me --Sir W. Scott. Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also? --Ld. Lytton. 6. To bear, as young; as she has just had a child. 7. To hold regard, or esteem. Of them shall I be had in honor. --2 Sam. vi 22. 8. To cause or force to go to take ``The stars have us to bed.'' --Herbert. ``Have out all men from me.'' --2 Sam. xiii. 9. 9. To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as to have after one to have at one or at a thing i. e., to aim at one or at a thing to attack; to have with a companion. --Shak. 10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive. Science has and will long have to be a divider and a separatist. --M. Arnold. The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction. --Earle. 11. To understand. You have me have you not? --Shak. 12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of as that is where he had him [Slang] Note: Have as an auxiliary verb is used with the past participle to form preterit tenses; as I have loved; I shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the state indicated by the participle; as I have conquered him I have or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this independent significance, and is used with the participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past time. Had is used especially in poetry, for would have or should have Myself for such a face had boldly died. --Tennyson. {To have a care}, to take care to be on one's guard. {To have (a man) out}, to engage one in a duel. {To have done} (with). See under Do v. i. {To have it out}, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion. {To have on}, to wear. {To have to do with}. See under Do v. t. Syn: To possess; to own See {Possess}.
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