The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harbor \Har"bor\ (h[aum]r"b[~e]r), v. t. [Written also harbour.] [imp. & p. p. Harbored (-b[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harboring.] [OE. herberen, herberwen, herbergen; cf. Icel. herbergj
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See Harbor, n.] To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of harbor English)
Usage examples of "harboring".
The Global Community Network News was reporting that a Michael Shorosh had been arrested in connection with the harboring of a fugitive from justice.
As soon as the dwarf flinched, he had called upon the innate magic of his heritage to conjure a globe of darkness in front of the window harboring the crossbowmen.
She was always suspicious, that one, and Temigast feared she was harboring his same doubts about the child's heritage.
When the truth about House Basadoni's change and the takeover of Dallabad eventually leaked out-and Entreri was now harboring few doubts that it would-all the guilds and all the lords and every power in the region would unite against Bregan D'aerthe.
The great caverns of the drow were often miles across, tremendous places harboring cities of many thousands, but—if Coalhewer did not exaggerate—the Darklake occupied a cavern well over one hundred miles from side to side, and thousands of feet in height.
It just seems to me your life depends on who knows or doesn't know that you're harboring Tsion Ben-Judah.
I don't think I'll have much trouble convincing Steve Plank or even Nicolae Carpathia that it appears you're harboring Tsion Ben-Judah.
And if asked, he acknowledged harboring an atypical indifference to religion.
The police had obtained essays he’d written for an English class shortly before the murders, but they had a humorous, optimistic tone and held no hint that Jason had been harboring murderous impulses.
Death-qualified juries are those from which anyone harboring reservations about imposing the death penalty is excluded.
Others recalled being shunned simply for harboring nonconformist tastes in clothes, literature, music, or art.
Some of them had recoiled in terror, wondering what punishment was in store for them, harboring an assailant.
But, with both the government and the other circuses turning their food-consuming animals into consumable food for human beings, some zealous do-gooders are likely to look on us as harboring, almost literally, dogs in the manger.