SHAVE Copy link • SHAVE(With a razor, etc.), radere or abradere barbam alicujus (with a razor, ξυρεῖν): tondere alicujus barbam (with scissors, κείρειν: Vid: Suet., Oct., 79, modo tondere, modo radere barbam). To shave one’s self, barbam radere or tondere: to be shaved, tonderi; tonsori operam dare (Suet., Oct., 79): to be shaved for the first time, primam barbam ponere (for which Petronius, 74, extr., in the language of rustics, says, barbatoriam facere): to be shaved every day, faciem quotidie rasitare (Suet., Och., 12): figuratively, to shave one, i. e., to cheat, impose upon, aliquem attondere (Plaut., Bacch., 5, 1, 9). To shave closely, aliquem admutilare ad cutem (Plaut.). (With a plane, etc.), radgre; radere et levare: to shave off, abradere: deradere (also to make smooth): subradere (from below): circumradere (all round).