harbor

Any place of shelter.UScountable

• The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.

A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.UScountable

• A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

A mixing box for materials.UScountable

A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.UScountableobsolete

Shelter, refuge.USobsoleteuncountable

To provide a harbor or safe place for.UStransitive

• The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.

To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.USintransitive

• The fleet harbored in the south.

To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.UStransitive

• This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badg

To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.UStransitive

• She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.