shave (shav)

[ The proprietors of barbers' shops, where a penny shave had been the staple trade, burst forth as fashionable per First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 74. IMG:content-0813.png:[blocks in formation] Wheel ladder for harvest, light pitch-forks, and tough, Shave, whip-lash well knotted, and cart-rope enough. Tu er, Husbandly Furniture, st. 6. 5. In stock transactions, a premium or consideration paid for an extension of time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a contract in some particular.-6. The proportion of receipts paid by a local theatrical manager to a traveling company or combination. [Theatrical cant.]-7. One who is close or hard in bargaining; specifically, one who shaves notes. News spread fast up dale and fiord how wealth such as men never dreamed of was heaped up in houses guarded J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., ii. 63. shaven (shā'vn). A past participle of shave . shaver (shā'ver), n. [ schaver , a barber: see shave .] 1. One who shaves, or whose occupation 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 fashionable hair-dre er also; and perhaps he had been sent for Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xix. .. to trim a lord, or cut and curl a lady. 2. One who makes close bargains, or is sharp in his dealings; one who is extortionate or usurious, 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 Steer forth. "Pays as he speaks, my dear child-through the nose.... None of your close shavers the Prince ain't." Dickens, David Copper field, xxii. 3. A fellow; a chap; now, especially with the epithet little or young, or even without the epithet, 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 , In golds by Legends, II. 127. shave-weed (shav'wed), n. Same as scouring rush.