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Shave   /ʃeɪv/   Listen
verb
Shave  v. t.  (past shaved; past part. shaved or shaven; pres. part. shaving)  
1.
To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.
2.
To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself. "I'll shave your crown for this." "The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving the surface of the waving green."
3.
To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. "Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root."
4.
To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. "Now shaves with level wing the deep."
5.
To strip; to plunder; to fleece. (Colloq.)
To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. (Cant, U.S.)


Shave  v. i.  (past shaved; past part. shaved or shaven; pres. part. shaving)  To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.


Shave  v.  Obs. p. p. of Shave. "His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can."


noun
Shave  n.  
1.
A thin slice; a shaving.
2.
A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
3.
(a)
An exorbitant discount on a note. (Cant, U.S.)
(b)
A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. (Cant, U.S.)
4.
A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.
5.
The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. (Colloq.)
Shave grass (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under Equisetum.
Shave hook, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.





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"Shave" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wargrave," he said quietly. "But for you that brute would have got me. And his bite is death. Ranga's full of snakes, like all these places in the hills. We've killed several in the Mess since I've been here; but no one's had such a close shave as this. I'll stand you a drink for ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... expensive scent (which she abominated), and stacks of new novels, and a fearsome machine of wood and brass and universal joints, by means of which an invalid could read and breakfast and write and shave all at the same time. The only thing he did not give her—the thing she craved more than all—was a fresh-bound copy of ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... it all! Nothing has delighted us so much. Only Randolph Vinerhorn doesn't like it, but he is afraid to say it before the Senator, though I heard him grumbling from across the passage to Lola because he has not got his valet to shave him! Tom, of course, is just as happy as we are. How I love an adventure, Mamma! Did you ever? And if you could see Tom in his flannel shirt and his shabbiest old grey suit, and a felt slouch hat, you could not tell him from one of these lovely miners. ...
— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn
... a dandy place for us Boy Scouts to camp," said Bert. "But I guess this must be where they get lumber from, isn't it, Daddy?" he asked, as his father came through the car just then, having been to the wash-room to shave. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope


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