shavie (shavi)

[Also skavie, perhaps 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 (shaving), n. [Verbal n. of shave, v.] 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 pa ionate griefs of childhood, the wearine and samene of sharing , the agony of corns, and the you sand other ills to which flesh is heir, I cheerfully 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. 455. 2. A thin slice pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument; especially, a thin slice of wood cut off by a plane or a planing-machine. Rippe vp the golden Ball that Nero consecrated to Jupiter Capitol lin us, you shall haue it stuffed with the shauinges of his Beard. S. Go on, The Schoole of Abuse. 3. In leather - manuf., a proce which follows skiving, and consists in removing inequalities and roughne es by means of the curriers' knife, leaving the leather of uniform thickne , and with a fine smooth surface on the flesh side. 4. The act of fleecing or defrauding; swindling. IMG:content-0814.png:[blocks in formation] shaving-tub (sha'ving-tub), n. In book bind- ing , the wooden tub or box into which the cut- ing , tings of paper are made to fall when the for- warder is cutting the edges of books. shawl (sha), (sha), n. [ scag a , a shaw; shaw: cf. Icel. skogr = Sw. skog = Dan. skov , a shaw; per- haps akin to Icel. skuggi = AS. scua , scūша , а shade, shadow: see show1 , sky1.] 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 schaze that schaded ful cole. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), 1. 452. Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the sha we. Chaucer , Cook's Tale, 1. 3. I have mony steads in the forest schaw. Sang of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 37). Close hid under the greenwood shaw . Fairfax , tr. of Ta o's Godfrey of Boulogne, viii. 52. 2. A stem with the leaves, as of a potato or turnip. of show1. [Now only North. Eng. or Scotch in both senses.] shaw2 (sha), v. An obsolete or dialectal form shaw3t, n. An obsolete form of shah . shaweret, n. An obsolete form of shower2 . shaw-fowl (sha'foul), n. [ shaw2 , show, + fowll.] A representation or image of a fowl set up by fowlers to shoot at for practice. [Scotch and North. Eng.] shawll (shal), a. and n. A Scotch form of shoall.