crown shaving
121hair — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. mane (see hair); filament;bit, inch (see narrowness, nearness). II Body covering filament Nouns 1. hair; head of hair, mop, mane, crop of hair, thatch, shock; gray, silver or white hair (see… …
122tonsure — This word (from the Latin tonsura, meaning a shearing or clipping ) refers to the shaving of the crown of the head of priests, clerics, and members of monastic orders. From medieval times to the Second Vatican Council, the conferral of tonsure …
123tonsura — /tons(y)ura/ In old English law, a shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman …
124tonsure — The shaving of the hair from the crown of a man s head. Originally it was the law that no man should be admitted to the privilege of the clergy who had not the clerical habit and tonsure. See 4 Bl Comm 366. tontine company. A company or… …
125tonsure — n. & v. n. 1 the shaving of the crown of the head or the entire head, esp. of a person entering a priesthood or monastic order. 2 a bare patch made in this way. v.tr. give a tonsure to. Etymology: ME f. OF tonsure or L tonsura (as TONSORIAL) …
126CHICAGO — CHICAGO, the third largest metropolis in the United States is located in northeastern illinois . In 2000 it had an estimated population of 2,896,000 in a metropolitan population of 8,091,719. In 2000 the Jewish population of Chicago and its… …
