To remove (the hair or beard) by means of some sharp instrument (also with off, away); to shave (the head or face); to cut (the hair) close or…

To cut off (hair, esp. the beard) close to the skin with or as with a razor. Also with away, off.

transitive. To cut off (the hair of the head), poll (the head), crop (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To cut short in some part, esp. in the tail, hair, or similar appendage; to curtail.

spec. To cut the hair off; to poll.

transitive. To shave (the head); to cut off or cut short (the hair of the head). Also occasionally intransitive. Now U.S. and British regional.

transitive. To shave or tonsure (a person or a person's head); to trim or crop (a person's hair). Also occasionally intransitive. Now historical and…

transitive. To poll, cut off the hair of, shear, clip, cut close. Ascham uses coul for ‘to pare or cut down the feather of an arrow’.

transitive. To poll (the head); to clip, cut short, top, prune.

transitive. To clip or cut short (the hair or a beard); to clip or cut short the hair of (a person).

To dress (the hair or beard); to clip (the hair), or to clip the hair of (a person); sometimes, to shave (a person); also, to dub (a cock).

transitive. To cut the hair of. Obsolete.

transitive. To crop close.

transitive. = decurt, v.

transitive. To trim the hair on (a part of the body) with scissors; to trim (the hair, beard, etc.) with scissors. Also with adverb, as down, back.

? To trim or curl up. Obsolete.

transitive. To clip or shave the hair of; to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.