Word Meanings - SHAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SHAVING

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.

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• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• PARADISIC
  Paradisiacal. Broome.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• PARROCK
  A croft, or small field; a paddock.
• PAR
  See PARR
• PARTHIAN
  Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
• PAROSTOSIS
  Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
• PARADOXURE
  Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
• PARUMBILICAL
  Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
• PARACROSTIC
  A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• PARIETES
  The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
• PARGETER
  A plasterer. Johnson.
• PARABOLE
  Similitude; comparison.
• PARIETINE
  A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton.
• PARANTHRACENE
  An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• PARRY
  1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm. Locke. Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw. Cowper. 2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. The French
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• UNRAZORED
  Not shaven. Milton.
• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.