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61shave — v. a. 1. Cut off (close to the surface). 2. Make smooth or bare (as by cutting off hair closely), to pare close. 3. Slice, cut in thin slices. 4. Strip, fleece, pillage, shear, oppress (by extortion). 5. Graze, skim, touch lightly (in passing… …
62shave — v 1. poll, cut off, shear, fleece, remove, retrench; cut away, scrape away, scale, peel, pare, whittle, cut or trim down to size; mow, trim, snip off, clip, crop, lop off, dock, prune, cut back. 2. scrape, graze, brush, touch, rub. n 3. shaving,… …
63SHAVE — • Steerable Housing for Atherovascular Excision …
64shave — Sometimes used to denote the act of obtaining the property of another by oppression and extortion. Also used in an innocent sense to denote the buying of existing notes and other securities for money, at a discount. Hence to charge a man with… …
65shave — [1] Removal of some chrome or decorative part. [2] Removal of metal from the contact surface of the cylinder head or the block …
66shave — To cut away. To strip or pillage. To oppress by extortion. To deceive, defraud, or overreach. Bronson v Wiman (NY) 10 Barb 406, 428. To make a profit by taking an unconscientious advantage of another. To exact a discount at an unconscientious… …
67shave — tv. to reduce or lessen something. □ They shaved the waiting time to six months. □ The coach thought that the other team was shaving points, so he complained the next day …
68shave — see SCAB …
69shave — a coppice, or little wood. Kent …
70To shave a note — 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.… …
