Word Meanings - SHAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. Chaucer.
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- SHEAR
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - SHEARS
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting - INDENTMENT
Indenture. - CURTAILER
One who curtails. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - SHEARBILL
The black skimmer. See Skimmer. - SHEARN
Dung; excrement. Holland. - INDENTEDLY
With indentations. - INDENTURE
A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. - INDENTED
Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like - INDENTION
See 4 - POLISHABLE
Capable of being polished. - SHEARWATER
Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species - WOUNDY
Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange. - CURTAIL
To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay. - WOUNDLESS
Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak. - SHEARMAN
One whose occupation is to shear cloth. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - DISHEARTENMENT
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - DEPOLISHING
The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight. - 'SWOUNDS
An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - SWOUND
See LONGFELLOW