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Shaving   /ʃˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Shaving

noun
1.
The act of removing hair with a razor.  Synonym: shave.
2.
A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.  Synonyms: paring, sliver.
3.
The act of brushing against while passing.  Synonyms: grazing, skimming.


Shave

verb
(past shaved; past part. shaven)
1.
Remove body hair with a razor.
2.
Cut closely.  Synonym: trim.
3.
Cut the price of.  Synonym: knock off.
4.
Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.  Synonym: plane.
5.
Make shavings of or reduce to shavings.
6.
Touch the surface of lightly.



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"Shaving" Quotes from Famous Books



... be ever so many years older since yesterday. There was no mistake about it now. He was as much in love as the best hero in the best romance he ever read. He told John to bring his shaving water with the utmost confidence. He dressed himself in some of his finest clothes that morning: and came splendidly down to breakfast, patronising his mother and little Laura, who had been strumming her music lesson for hours before; and who after he had read the prayers (of which he ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... shoulder; his brown breast glittering with sweat and oil: 'Talofa' - 'Talofa, alii - You see that white man? He speak for you.' 'White man he gone up here?' - 'Ioe (Yes)' - 'Tofa, alii' - 'Tofa, soifua!' I put on Jack up the steep path, till he is all as white as shaving stick - Brown's euxesis, wish I had some - past Tanugamanono, a bush village - see into the houses as I pass - they are open sheds scattered on a green - see the brown folk sitting there, suckling kids, sleeping on their stiff wooden pillows - ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... enactment was made about personal appearance, which widened the fatal breach still more between England and Ireland. This law declared that every man who did not shave[365] his upper lip, should be treated as an "Irish enemy;" and the said shaving was to be performed once, at ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... other end of the shop to make a side bet with one of the other barbers on the outcome of the Autumn Handicap. In the barber-shops they knew the result of the Jeffries-Johnson prize-fight long before it happened. It is on information of this kind that they make their living. The performance of shaving is only incidental to it. Their real vocation in life is imparting information. To the barber the outside world is made up of customers, who are to be thrown into chairs, strapped, manacled, gagged with soap, and then given such necessary ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... a birthday present for my wife," I said. "I want to buy her something that will bring great joy to her heart and which I might use afterwards as a pair of slippers or a shaving mug." ...
— Get Next! • Hugh McHugh


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