Word Finder - shaven

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To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

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To cut anything in this fashion.

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The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.

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To remove hair from one's face by this means.

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I had little time to shave this morning.

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To cut finely, as with slices of meat.

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To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

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To reduce in size or weight.

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To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.

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To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

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Having been shaved.

He is clean shaven and his hair is graying at the temples.

He gave her a cold, angry look and offered her his wrinkled, clean- shaven cheek to kiss.

The two first were convicts with shaven heads.

His face was clean shaven, but his dark curly hair was thick and unruly.

At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining room.

From one open shop came the sound of blows and vituperation, and just as the officer came up to it a man in a gray coat with a shaven head was flung out violently.

His servant was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown.

Among the soldiers in the shops and passages some men were to be seen in gray coats, with closely shaven heads.

Thick dark lashes and a deep tan intensified the blue of his eyes, and his freshly shaven face had attractive angles.

In the Eastern or St Paul's tonsure the whole head was shaven, but when now practised in the Eastern Church this tonsure is held to be adequately shown when the hair is shorn close.

In the Celtic tonsure (tonsure of St John, or, in contempt, tonsure of Simon Magus) all the hair in front of a line drawn over the top of the head from ear to ear was shaven (a fashion common among the Hindus).

The Shaven Crown does indeed possess its share of supernatural lore, attached particularly to Room 11.

He was, as Jake Weller reported, freshly barbered and shaven.

His black curly hair was cut short, every hair in place, and his angular jaws were freshly shaven.

The lips are full and the chin short and shaven.

I seem to recall bacteria, traces of Matthew Kelly's shaven beard, a live baby gecko all being found in the burgers.

I went in to discover him on the bed, stone cold sober, lying back and displaying his freshly shaven bollocks.

Do not use before shaving or on a freshly shaven skin.

If you like your music bubble-gum sweet and your punters clean shaven given this place a wide berth.

They received shares of the annual revenues of the temple in kind, consisting of linen, oil, flesh, bread, vegetables, wine, beer, &c. The divine servants or prophets had residences assigned them in the temple area In late times the priests were always shaven, and paid the greatest attention to cleanliness and ceremonial purity already implied in their ancient name.

I came away with a face full of stubble, although I was clean shaven when I went in there.

In the same room, there is a man with no hair, just a bald shaven head.

I guess that means that in general, I probably prefer a clean shaven face.

You will fall in with some men with shaven crowns; smite them thereon with the sword.

He pushed his hood back to reveal a shaven pate to which clung an augmentation like a huge crystal slug.

Cologne is not designed to be applied on your freshly shaven face and it can cause irritation and stinging.

Clean shaven is the alternative, but it's coming back.

The suit left the chest fully exposed, and was meant to be worn on a smooth shaven body.

The rest of the head is shaven.