- the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- the shaving of the head or of some part of it as a religious practice or rite, especially in preparation for entering the priesthood or a monastic order.
- the part of a cleric's head, usually the crown, left bare by shaving the hair.
- the state of being shorn.
- to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.
- to subject to tonsure.
- (in certain religions and monastic orders)
- the shaving of the head or the crown of the head only
- the part of the head left bare by shaving
- the state of being shaven thus
- to shave the head of
