n. same as after-shave lotion.
Syn. -- after-shave lotion [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a fragrant lotion for a man's face after shaving.
Syn. -- after-shave [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Behaved p. pr. & vb. n. Behaving. ] [ AS. behabban to surround, restrain, detain (akin to G. gehaben (obs.) to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. be- + habban to have. See Have, v. t. ] 1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those that behaved themselves manfully. 2 Macc. ii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb is often used colloquially without an adverb of manner; as, if he does not behave, he will be punished. It is also often applied to inanimate objects; as, the ship behaved splendidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be upon one's good behavior,
To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. --
During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bearing; demeanor; manner. -- Behavior, Conduct. Behavior is the mode in which we have or bear ourselves in the presence of others or toward them; conduct is the mode of our carrying ourselves forward in the concerns of life. Behavior respects our manner of acting in particular cases; conduct refers to the general tenor of our actions. We may say of soldiers, that their conduct had been praiseworthy during the whole campaign, and their behavior admirable in every instance when they met the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to behavior. behavioral sciences [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.
Syn. -- behaviourism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.
Syn. -- behaviourist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of behaviorists or behaviorism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as behaviorism.
Syn. -- behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as behaviorist.
Syn. -- behaviorist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Cheven. ] (Zool.) The chub. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the surface shaved to smoothness.
Syn. -- smooth-shaven, well-shaven. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Drawing knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. An Havana cigar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. hæfde, p. p. gehæfd); akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries. hebba, OHG. habēn, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had a fever late. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To accept possession of; to take or accept. [ 1913 Webster ]

Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To get possession of; to obtain; to get. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also? Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To hold, regard, or esteem. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. To understand. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have me, have you not? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Myself for such a face had boldly died. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little or nothing. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of 1857. ] A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hæfene; akin to D. & LG. haven, G. hafen, MHG. habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave (see Heave); or akin to AS. hæf sea, Icel. & Sw. haf, Dan. hav, which is perh. akin to E. heave. ] 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port. [ 1913 Webster ]

What shipping and what lading 's in our haven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their haven under the hill. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The haven, or the rock of love. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shelter, as in a haven. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Harbor dues; port dues. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Sheltered in a haven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A harbor master. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Formerly haver, prob. fr. Half; cf. L. semimas emasculated, prop., half male. ] A castrated deer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Possession; goods; estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. havour, a corruption of OF. aveir, avoir, a having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to confusion with E. have. ] Behavior; demeanor. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or rapacious bird, or F. hai, voux! a cry to hounds. ] Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. [ 1913 Webster ]

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make
Among your works! Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste. [ 1913 Webster ]

To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ See Havoc, n. ] A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Toone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
With modest warrant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cry 'havoc, ' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Misbehaved p. pr. & vb. n. Misbehaving. ] To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. “A misbehaved and sullen wench.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Shaved p. p. Shaved or Shaven p. pr. & vb. n. Shaving. ] [ OE. shaven, schaven, AS. scafan, sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G. schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw. skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban, Russ. kopate to dig, Gr. ska`ptein, and probably to L. scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. Scab, Shaft, Shape. ] 1. To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll shave your crown for this. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The laborer with the bending scythe is seen
Shaving the surface of the waving green. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now shaves with level wing the deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See Shave, v. t. ] 1. A thin slice; a shaving. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (a) An exorbitant discount on a note. [ Cant, U.S. ] (b) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. [ Cant, U.S. ] N. Biddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shave grass (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under Equisetum. --
Shave hook, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. Sir W. Scott. [ 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 ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. “Shaving of silver.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaving brush, a brush used in lathering the face preparatory to shaving it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as theave. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]