shaup 
shaup, shawp (shap), M. [Assibilated form 
of waupl.] A husk or pod: as, a pea-x/(H/>. 
[Scotch.] 
shave (shav), c. ; pret. and pp. xliaved (pp. some- 
times xliiircii), ppr. nliariHij. [< ME. stutrai, 
seliaven (pret. schoof, sciiof, also scharyde, pp. 
shaven. Mow, i-schaven, y-schave"), < AS. sceaj'n n , 
scafan (pret. sco/, pp. sea/en), shave, = D. MLG. 
scltaven, scrape, plane, = OHG. seaban, sca/ian, 
MHG. G. schaben, scratch, shave, scrape, = Icel. 
skafa = Sw. skafi-a = Dan. sfcace = Goth, ska hint, 
scrape, shave; prpb. = L. scabere, scratch, 
scrape; cf. Gr. aKairreiv, dig, = Lith. skapoti, 
shave, cut; skopti, hollow out; Euss. kopati, 
dig; skobli, scraping-iron. From share are de- 
rived shaveling, perhaps shafft, shaft 2 ; from the 
same ult. source are scab, shah, scabby, shabby.] 
1. trans. 1. To remove by a slicing, paring, 
or sliding action of a keen-edged instrument; 
especially, to remove by cutting close to the 
skin with a razor: sometimes with off: as, to 
shave the beard. 
Also thei seye that wee synne dedly in schavynge cure 
Berdes. Mandeville, Travels, p. 19. 
Neither shall they shave of the corner of their beard. 
Lev. xxi. 5. 
2. To make bare by cutting off the hair, or the 
like : as, to share the chin or head ; also, to re- 
move the hair or beard of with a razor: as, to 
shaves, man: often used figuratively. 
Bot war the wel, if thou be waschen wyth water of schryf te, 
& polysed als playn as parchmen schauen. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 
For I am shave as nye as any frere. 
Chaucer, Complaint to his Purse, 1. 19. 
The labourer with a bending scythe is seen, 
Shaving the surface of the waving green. 
Gay, Rural Sports, i. 41. 
3. To cut down gradually by taking off thin 
shavings or parings: as, to shave shingles or 
hoops. 
And ten brode arowis held he there, 
Of which nve in his right honde were, 
But they were shaven wel and dight, 
Noked and tethered aright. 
Rom. of the Rose, \. 941. 
The third rule shall be, the making of some medley or 
mixture of earth with some other plants bruised or shaved 
either in leaf or root. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 528. 
4. To skim along or near the surface of ; pass 
very close to ; come very near touching or graz- 
ing. Compare shave, n., 3. 
He scours the right-hand coast, sometimes the left ; 
Now shaves with level wing the deep. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 634. 
5. To strip ; fleece; cheat; swindle. 
I have been shaved mischief e and a thousand divells 
cease him ! I have been shaved ! 
Marston, Dutch Courtezan, iii. 1. 
Shaven latten. See latten.To shave notes, to pur- 
chase promissory notes at a rate of discount greater than 
is customary. [U. S.)=Syn. 1 and 2. Peel, Shave of, etc. 
See twzrei, v. (. 
II. intrans. 1. To remove the beard with a 
razor; use a razor in removing the beard or 
hair from the face or head. 2. To be hard or 
extortionate in bargains; specifically, to pur- 
chase notes or securities at a greater discount 
than is common. [U. S.] 
shave (shav), . [< shave, v.] 1. The act or 
operation of shaving; the being shaved. 
The proprietors of barbers' shops, where a penny shave 
had been the staple trade, burst forth as fashionable per- 
fumers. First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 74. 
2. A shaving; a thin paring. 3. Motion so 
close to something as almost to scrape or graze 
it; a very close approach; hence, an exceed- 
ingly narrow miss or escape : often with close 
or near. 
The next instant the hind coach passed my engine by a 
sham. Dickens. 
"By Jove, that was a near shave ! " This exclamation was 
drawn from us by a bullet which whistled within an inch 
of our heads. W. U. Russell, Diary in India, xxi. 
4. A knife with a long blade and a handle at 
each end, for shaving hoops, spokes (a spoke- 
shave), etc.; a drawing-knife, used by shoe- 
makers. 
Wheel ladder for harvest, light pitch-forks, and tough, 
Shave, whip-lash well knotted, and cart-rope enough. 
Tusser, Husbandly Furniture, st. 6. 
5. In stock transactions, a premium or consid- 
eration paid for an extension of time of deliv- 
ery or payment, or for the right to vary a con- 
tract in some particular. 6. The proportion of 
receipts paid by a local theatrical manager to 
a traveling company or combination. [Theat- 
rical cant.] 7. One who is close or hard in 
bargaining; specifically, one who shaves notes. 
5555 
[Oolloq.] 8. A trick; a piece of knavery, 
especially in money matters; hence, by exten- 
sion, any piece of deception. 
The deep gloom of apprehension at first "a shave of 
old Smith's,' then a well-authenticated report. 
W. U. Russell, Diary in India, xii. 
shavet. A Middle English past participle of 
shave. 
shave-grass (shav'gras), n. Same as scouring- 
nisli. 
shave-hook (shav'huk), w. A tool used for 
cleaning the surfaces of metal preparatory to 
soldering, and for smoothing and dressing off 
solder. Tinmen use a triangular plate of steel with 
sharpened edges ; plumbers have a stouter form of scraper. 
See cut under soldering -tool. 
shaveling (shav'ling),w. [< .share + -Knj; 1 .] A 
shaven person ; hence, a friar or religious : an 
opprobrious term. Compare beardling. 
About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean 
shorn, and polled. Motteux, tr. of Rabelais, iv. 45. 
It maketh no matter how thou live here, so thou have 
the favour of the pope and his shavelings. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 291. 
Then Monsieur le Cure' offers you a pinch of snuff, or a 
poor soldier shows you his leg, or a shaveling his box. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 16. 
News spread fast up dale and fiord how wealth such as 
men never dreamed of was heaped up in houses guarded 
only by priests and shavelings, who dared not draw sword. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., ii. 63. 
shaven (sha'vn). A past participle of shave. 
shaver (sha'ver), . [< ME. schaver, a barber: 
see shave.'] 1. One who shaves, or whose oc- 
cupation it is to shave ; a barber. 
She 's gotten him a shaver for his beard, 
A comber till his hair. 
Young Bekie (Child's Ballads, IV. 11). 
The bird-fancier was an easy shaver also, and a fashion- 
able hair-dresser also ; and perhaps he had been sent for 
... to trim a lord, or cut and curl a lady. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xix. 
2. One who makes close bargains, or is sharp in 
his dealings; one who is extortionate or usu- 
rious, or who fleeces the simple. 
By these shavers the Turks were stripped of all they had. 
Knolles, Hist. Turks. 
Whoo ! the brace are flinch'd, 
The pair of shavers are sneak'd from us, Don. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, ii. 1. 
"He pays well, I hope?" said Steerforth. "Pays as he 
speaks, my dear child through the nose. . . . None of 
your close shavers the Prince ain't." 
Dickens, David Copperfleld, xxii. 
3. A fellow; a chap; now, especially with the 
epithet little or young, or even without the epi- 
thet, a young fellow ; a youngster. [Colloq.] 
Bar. Let me see, sirrah, are you not an old shaver > 
Slave. Alas, sir ! I am a very youth. 
Marlowe, Jew of Malta, iii. 3. 
If he had not been a merry shaver, I would never have 
had him. Wily Beguiled (Hawkins's Eng. Drama, III. 375). 
And all for a "Shrimp " not as high as my hat 
A little contemptible "Shaver " like that ! 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 127. 
shave-weed (shav'wed), n. Same as seoitring- 
rush. 
shavle (sha'vi), . [Also skavie, perhaps < Dan. 
skew, wry, crooked, oblique, = Sw. skef = Icel. 
skeifr D. scheef = MLG. schef = G. schief, 
skew, oblique: see skew.] A trick or prank. 
[Scotch.] . 
But Cupid shot a shaft, 
That play'd the dame a shavie. 
Burns, Jolly Beggars. 
shaving (sha'ving), n. [Verbal n. of shave, r.] 
1. The act of one who shaves; the removal of 
the beard or hair of the head with a razor; the 
use of a razor for removing the beard. 
As I consider the passionate griefs of childhood, the 
weariness and sameness of shaving, the agony of corns, 
and the thousand other ills to which flesh is heir, I cheer- 
fully say, for one, I am not anxious to wear it forever. 
Thackeray, Adventures of Philip, xvii. 
Before Alexander's time only the Spartans shaved the 
upper lip, but after that shaving became more general. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 456. 
2. A thin slice pared off with a shave, a knife, 
a plane, or other cutting instrument; especial- 
ly, a thin slice of wood cut off by a plane or a 
planing-machine. 
Rippe vp the golden Ball that Nero consecrated to 
Jupiter Capitollinus, you shall haue it stuffed with the 
shauinges of his Beard. S. Qosson, The Schoole of Abuse. 
3. In leather-nianuf., a process which follows 
skiving, and consists in removing inequalities 
and roughnesses by means of the curriers' knife, 
leaving the leather of uniform thickness, and 
with a fine smooth surface on the flesh side. 
4. The act of fleecing or defrauding; swin- 
dling. 
shawl-strap 
And let any hook draw you either to a fencer's supper, 
or to a player's that acts such a part for a wager ; for by 
this means you shall get experience, by being guilty to 
their abominable shaving. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 166. 
shaving-basin (sha'ving-ba/'sn), n. Same as 
barber's basin (which see, under barber). 
shaving-brush (sha'ving-brush), . A brush 
used in shaving for spreading the lather over 
the face. 
shaving-cup (sha'ving-kup), H. A cup used to 
hold the soap and lather for shaving. 
shaving-horse (sha'ving-hors), n. In carp., 
a bencn fitted with a clamping device, used to 
hold a piece of timber as it is shaved with a 
drawing-knife. 
shaving-machine (sha'ving-ma-shen"), . 1. 
In hat-mamif., a pouncing-niachine. 2. A 
machine for shaving stereotype plates. E. H. 
Knight. 
shaving-tub (sha'ving-tub), n. In bookbind- 
ing, the wooden tub or box into which the cut- 
tings of paper are made to fall when the for- 
warder is cutting the edges of books. 
shaw 1 (sha), n. [< ME. sham, schaw, schawe, 
schowe, schage, < AS. scaga, a shaw; cf. Icel. 
skogr Sw. skog = Dan. skov, a shaw; per- 
haps akin to Icel. sknggi = AS. scua, scuwa, a 
shade, shadow : see show 1 , skyi. ] 1 . A thicket ; 
a small wood; a shady place ; a grove. 
A nos on the north syde & nowhere non ellez 
Bot al echet in a schaje that schaded f ul cole. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morels), 1. 452. 
Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shave. 
Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 3. 
I have mony steads in the forest schaw. 
Santf of the Onflow Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 37). 
Close hid under the greenwood slum: 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne, viii. 52. 
2. A stem with the leaves, as of a potato or 
turnip. 
[Now only North. Eng. or Scotch in both 
senses.] 
shaw 2 (sha), v. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of show 1 . 
Shaw 3 t, . An obsolete form of shah. 
shaweret, An obsolete form of shoicer 2 . 
shaw-fowl (sha'foul), n. [< shaw 2 , show, + 
fowl 1 .] A representation or image of a fowl 
set up by fowlers to shoot at for practice. 
[Scotch and North. Eng.] 
shawl 1 (shal), a. and n. A Scotch form of 
shoal 1 . 
shawl 2 (shal), w. [= F. chdle = Sp. chal = Pg. 
chale = It. sciallo = D. sjaal = G. schawl, shawl, 
= Sw. Dan. schal, sjal (< E.) = Ar. Hind, shal, < 
Pers. shal, a shawl or mantle.] A square or ob- 
long article of dress, forming a loose covering 
for the shoulders, worn chiefly by women. Shawls 
are of several sizes and divers materials, as silk, cotton, 
hair, or wool ; and occasionally they are made of a mix- 
ture of some or all of these staples. Some of the East- 
ern shawls, as those of Cashmere, are very beautiful and 
costly fabrics. The use of the shawl in Europe belongs 
almost entirely to the present century. Compare chudder, 
cashmere. Camel's-hair shawl. See camel. Shawl 
dance, a graceful dance originating in the East, and made 
effective by the waving of a shawl or scarf. 
She's had f best of education can play on t' instru- 
ment, and dance t ' shau'l-dance. 
Mrs. Gaslcell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxix. 
Shawl muscle. Same as trapezius and cucullaris. 
shawl 2 (shal), v. t. [<. shawl?, n.] Tocoverwith 
a shawl; put a shawl on. [Rare.] 
Lady Clonbrony was delighted to see that her son as- 
sisted Grace Nugent most carefully in shau'ling the young 
heiress. Miss Edgeworth, Absentee, iii. 
The upper part of Mrs. McKillop's body, bonneted and 
shawled, cautiously displayed itself in the aperture. 
L. W. m. Lockhart, Fair to See, xxxviii. 
shawl-loom (shal'lom), n, A figure-weaving 
loom. 
shawl-mantle (shal'man"tl), n. A mantle or 
cloak for women's wear, made of a shawl, and 
usually very simple in its cut, having no 
sleeves, and often resembling the burnoose. 
Shawl-material (shal'ma-te'ri-al), n. A tex- 
tile of silk and wool used for dresses and parts 
of dresses for women. The material is soft and 
flexible, and is usually woven in designs of Ori- 
ental character. 
Shawl-pattern (shal'pat"ern), . A pattern 
having decided forms and colors, supposed to 
be like those of an Eastern shawl, applied to 
a material or a garment usually of plainer de- 
sign: also used ad jectively: as, a shawl-pattern 
waistcoat. 
Shawl-pin (shal'pin), . A pin used for fasten- 
ing a shawl. 
Shawl-Strap (shiil'strap), n. A pair of leather 
straps with buckles or automatic catches, fitted 
to a handle, for carrying shawls, parcels, etc. 
