Crossword clues for shaved
shaved
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shave \Shave\, v. t. [imp. Shaved (sh[=a]vd);p. p. Shaved or Shaven (sh[=a]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Shaving.] [OE. shaven, schaven, AS. scafan, sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G. schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw. skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban, Russ. kopate to dig, Gr. ska`ptein, and probably to L. scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. Scab, Shaft, Shape.]
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.
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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.
--Shak.The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving the surface of the waving green.
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To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root.
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To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
Now shaves with level wing the deep.
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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.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shave)
WordNet
Usage examples of "shaved".
And the courtiers crowded to follow the example of the King, and Shibli Bagarag shaved them, all of them.
CONCLUSION So was shaved Shagpat, the son of Shimpoor, the son of Shoolpi, the son of Shullum, by Shibli Bagarag, of Shiraz, according to preordainment.
Perplexed, Shichisaburo rubbed the faint stubble on the shaved front portion of his head.
Humiliated, impoverished, cut off from his family, the young man had shaved his head and become a mendicant monk.
Buddhist lay monks, this one had shaved his head entirely, although his hair had grown out into a shadowy fuzz.
His high, shaved forehead was divided horizontally by a faded blue towel, twisted into a roll and tied in front.
The eyebrows had been shaved, and new ones, thin as a three-day moon, had been drawn halfway up on the forehead.
It hid the fact that a large circle on the crown of his head was shaved as the government required of actors who impersonated women.
Dragonfly adjusted the six collars of his layered robes to expose more of the shaved, white nape of his neck while his apprentice hastened to open the parasol.
A disorderly fringe of dusty hair stood out around the shaved crowns of their heads.
His head was shaved except for a round patch of hair gathered into a bunch on his crown.
As the man passed below her she whirled it three times, then slammed it down on the shaved crown of his head.
The guard rubbed the shaved strip up the center of his skull where a lump was already forming.
A group of nuns with white scarves covering their shaved heads sang as they walked along.
She took the cloth off her shaved head, transforming herself into a young bonze.