LekhoriLekhoriTo make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
To cut anything in this fashion.
The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […]
To remove hair from one's face by this means.
I had little time to shave this morning.
An instance of shaving.
I instructed the barber to give me a shave.
A thin slice; a shaving.
A surname.
Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Ind...
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a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper
An exorbitant discount on a note.
yea, tis knowable that the paper money of some of them would not pass, comparatively speaking, much, if any, beyond the smoke of the chimney from whence 'twas issued and circulated before you, or those who had it would have to take a broker's shave on it , at the rate of from a ¼, to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, or more per cent, before it could be used as solvently available means of payment.