Havior

Without offering an opinion as to the relative probability of the etymology of this word, offered by your various correspondents (No. 17. p. 269.), I think it right that the use of the word in Scotland should not be overlooked. In Jamieson's admirable *Dictionary*, the following varieties of spelling and meaning (all evidently of the same word) occur:— "*Aver* or *Aiver*, a horse used for labour; commonly an old horse; as in Burns— "'Yet aft a ragged cowte's been kenn'd To mak a noble *aiver*.' "'This man wyl not obey.... Nochtheles I sall gar hym draw lik an *avir* in ane cart'—*Bellend. Chro…