Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 64
Shave (n.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [Colloq.]
Shave grass (Bot.), The scouring rush. See the Note under Equisetum.
Shave hook, A tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.
Shave (n.) The act of removing hair with a razor [syn: shave, shaving].
Shave (v.) Remove body hair with a razor.
Shave (v.) Cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: shave, trim].
Shave (v.) Cut the price of [syn: shave, knock off].
Shave (v.) Cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" [syn: plane, shave].
Shave (v.) Make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish".
Shave (v.) Touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing".
Shaved vs. shaven
Shaved is the past tense verb to shave, and it’s sometimes used as a past participle. Shaven is only used as a past participle. In other words, shaved is either a verb or an adjective, and shaven is an adjective. So English speakers are more likely to say “I have shaved” than “I have shaven.” But “his face is shaven” and “his face is shaved” both work.
Shave is one of a few irregular English verbs whose traditional participle forms no longer function as verbs. Others include melt (melted/ molten), cleave (cleaved/ cloven), and prove (proved/ proven). The irregular past-participle forms of these verbs tend to fade away with time, and shaven likely won’t be around for long. As a past participle, shaved is already more common than shaven.
// Rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo have kidnapped a Spanish doctor and shaved off all his body hair. [Reuters]
// To my right, a man sat with shaven head and full-length earth-red robes. [Independent]
The BBC’s deputy political editor had his Movember moustache shaved off while filming a review of the political week. [BBC News]
The suspect is described as a clean-shaven, white male between 5’9″ and 6 feet tall. [Nashville Scene]
Shaveling (n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.
I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. -- Sir W. Scott.
Shaver (n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
Shaver (n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper. -- Swift.
Shaver (n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
By these shavers the Turks were stripped. -- Knolles.
Shaver (n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow. [Colloq.] "These unlucky little shavers." -- Salmagundi.
As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king. -- Dickens.
Shaver (n.) (Mech.) A tool or machine for shaving.
A note shaver, A person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. [Cant, U.S.]
Shaver (n.) An adult male who shaves.
Shaver (n.) A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling].
Shaver (n.) A razor powered by an electric motor [syn: shaver, electric shaver, electric razor].
Shaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
Shaving (n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving of silver." -- Chaucer.
Shaving brush, A brush used in lathering the face preparatory to shaving it.
Shaving (n.) The act of removing hair with a razor [syn: shave, shaving].
Shaving (n.) A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something [syn: paring, sliver, shaving].
Shaving (n.) The act of brushing against while passing [syn: grazing, shaving, skimming].
Shaw (n.) A thicket; a small wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Burns.
Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw. -- Chaucer.
The green shaws, the merry green woods. -- Howitt.
Shaw (n.) pl. The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Shaw (n.) United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004) [syn: Shaw, Artie Shaw, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky].
Shaw (n.) United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885) [syn: Shaw, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings].
Shaw (n.) United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919) [syn: Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw].
Shaw (n.) British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950) [syn: Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw].
Shaw, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
Population (2000): 2312
Housing Units (2000): 785
Land area (2000): 1.110031 sq. miles (2.874967 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.110031 sq. miles (2.874967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67000
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.601549 N, 90.770720 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38773
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shaw, MS
Shaw
Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. -- Johnson.
Shawl (n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
India shawl, A kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together.
Shawl goat (Zool.), The Cashmere goat.
Shawl (v. t.) To wrap in a shawl. -- Thackeray.
Shawl (n.) Cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders.
Shawm (n.) (Mus.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] -- Otway.
Shawnees (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A
tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of
Shay (n.) A chaise. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Shay (n.) A carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse [syn: chaise, shay].
She (pron.) This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
She loved her children best in every wise. -- Chaucer.
Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. -- Gen. xviii. 15.
She (pron.) A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.]
Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. -- Shak.
Note: She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.
Sheading (v. t.) A tithing, or
division, in the
Sheaf (n.) A sheave.
Sheaves (n. pl. ) of Sheaf.
Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Sheaf (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
Sheaf (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Sheafy (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
Sheal (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Sheal (v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter.
Sheal (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
Sheal (n.) A shell or pod.
Shealing (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
Shealing (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Sheared (imp.) of Shear.
Shore () of Shear.
Sheared (p. p.) of Shear.
Shorn () of Shear.
Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear.
Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain.
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
Sheard (n.) See Shard.
Shearer (n.) One who shears.
Shearer (n.) A reaper.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.
Shearmen (n. pl. ) of Shearman
Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.
Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.
Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.
Shears (n.) A pair of wings.
Shears (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.
Shears (n.) 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.
Sheartail (n.) The common tern.
Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
Shearwater (n.) 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 (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
Sheatfish (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
Sheath (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
Sheath (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.
Sheathbill (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.
Sheathed (imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe.
Sheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheathe.
Sheathe (v. t.) To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
Sheathe (v. t.) To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.
Sheathe (v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.
Sheathe (v. t.) To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
Sheathed (a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
Sheathed (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
Sheather (n.) One who sheathes.
Sheathfish (n.) Same as Sheatfish.
Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
Sheathing (n.) That which sheathes.
Sheathing (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
Sheathy (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
Shea tree (n.) (Bot.) An African sapotaceous tree ({Bassia Parkii syn. Butyrospermum Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.
Sheave (n.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
Sheave hole, A channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.