| shaving | | |
| n. (act) | 1. shave, shaving | the act of removing hair with a razor. |
| ~ depilation, epilation | the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin). |
| ~ tonsure | shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order. |
| n. (object) | 2. paring, shaving, sliver | a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something. |
| ~ fragment | a piece broken off or cut off of something else.; "a fragment of rock" |
| ~ splint | a thin sliver of wood.; "he lit the fire with a burning splint" |
| ~ turning | a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe. |
| n. (act) | 3. grazing, shaving, skimming | the act of brushing against while passing. |
| ~ touching, touch | the act of putting two things together with no space between them.; "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
| muff | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. muff | a warm tubular covering for the hands. |
| ~ hand wear, handwear | clothing for the hands. |
| n. (act) | 2. fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ american football, american football game | a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (social) | 3. muff | fail to catch, as of a ball. |
| ~ fail, neglect | fail to do something; leave something undone.; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" |
| v. (social) | 4. ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
| whisker | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. hair, hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker | a very small distance or space.; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (animal) | 2. sensory hair, vibrissa, whisker | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat. |
| ~ hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism. |
| v. (possession) | 3. bewhisker, whisker | furnish with whiskers.; "a whiskered jersey" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
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