Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
      cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
      is done on one side only.

   7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
      especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
      to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
      remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
      off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
      of; to translate or transform into, as a text.

            Done to death by slanderous tongues.  -- Shak.

            The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.

            Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
            away.                                 --Thackeray.

            To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
            must do on the armor of God.          -- Latimer.

            Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen
            tunic.                                -- W. Morris
                                                  (Jason).

            Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
            yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
            much to be shunned.                   --Milton.

            It [``Pilgrim's Progress''] has been done into
            verse: it has been done into modern English. --
                                                  Macaulay.

   8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]

            He was not be done, at his time of life, by
            frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
            secured him seventy-five per cent.    -- De Quincey.

   9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
      interest. [Colloq.]

   10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
       bill or note.

   Note:
       (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
           to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
           auxiliary the verb do has no participle. ``I do set
           my bow in the cloud.'' --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or
           rare except for emphatic assertion.]

                 Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
                 the knowledge of the public.     -- Macaulay.
       (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. ``You
           don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.'' --Sir
           W. Scott. ``I did love him, but scorn him now.''
           --Latham.
       (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
           did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
           what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
           did not. ``Do you love me?'' --Shak.
       (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
           used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
           earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
           mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
           the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
           often stand as a general substitute or representative
           verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
           verb. ``To live and die is all we have to do.''
           --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
           the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
           to) of the verb represented. ``When beauty lived and
           died as flowers do now.'' --Shak. ``I . . . chose my
           wife as she did her wedding gown.'' --Goldsmith.

                 My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
                 As the light does the shadow.    -- Longfellow.
           In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
           most part, archaic or poetical; as, ``This just
           reproach their virtue does excite.'' --Dryden.

   {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like),
      to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
      most diligent efforts. ``We will . . . do our best to gain
      their assent.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).

   {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.

   {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.]

   {To do over}.
       (a) To make over; to perform a second time.
       (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. ``Boats . . . sewed
           together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
           like rosin.'' --De Foe.

   {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]

   {To do up}.
       (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
       (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
       (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
       (d) To starch and iron. ``A rich gown of velvet, and a
           ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.''
           --Hawthorne.

   {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
      usually preceded by what. ``Men are many times brought to
      that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
      know what to do with themselves.'' --Tillotson.

   {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or
      intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
      notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
      the person denoted by the subject of have. ``Philology has
      to do with language in its fullest sense.'' --Earle.
      ``What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam.
      xvi. 10.

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}.