Definition of "having"

having

/ˈhævɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of have
noun
countable and uncountable, plural havings
1. The act of possessing; ownership.
  Quotations
  He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'
  2002, Ronald Jager, The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
2. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
  Quotations
  Out of my lean and low abilityI’ll lend you something: my having is not much;I’ll make division of my present with you:Hold, there’s half my coffer.
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]
  Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade—Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—
  1875, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary‎, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 80
3. (obsolete) A person's behaviour.
4. (obsolete, Scotland, chiefly in the plural) Good manners.
adjective
comparative more having, superlative most having
1. (obsolete) Grasping; greedy.
  Quotations
  The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man.
  1875, Christ and the people, sermons, page 282