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2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift.
3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles. 4. 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. 5. (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.]
Shaving
(Shav"ing), n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
2. 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.
Shaw
(Shaw) n. [OE. schawe, scha&yoghe, thicket, grove, AS. scaga; akin to Dan. skov, Sw. skog,
Icel. skogr.]
1. 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. 2. pl. The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Shawfowl
(Shaw"fowl`), n. [Scot. schaw, shaw, show + fowl.] The representation or image of a fowl
made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.
Shawl
(Shawl) n. [Per. & Hind. shal: cf. F. châle.] 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 (Zoöl.), the Cashmere goat.
Shawl
(Shawl), v. t. To wrap in a shawl. Thackeray.
Shawm
(Shawm) n. [OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie; cf. F. chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all
fr. L. calamus a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet.] (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.
Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton. Shawnees
(Shaw`nees") n. pl.; sing. Shawnee (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied
Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Shay
(Shay) n. A chaise. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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