<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head</li><li>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</li><li>the part of a cleric's head, usually the crown, left bare by shaving the hair</li><li>the state of being shorn</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon</li><li>to subject to tonsure</li></ul>