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Webster 1913 Edition
Rase
Rase
(rāz)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rased
(rāzd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rasing
.] 1.
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
[Obsoles.]
Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which
rased
his cheek have gone into his head? South.
Sometimes his feet
rased
the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.
2.
To rub or scratch out; to erase.
[Obsoles.]
Except we
rase
the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller.
3.
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
[In this sense
raze
is generally used.] Till Troy were by their brave hands
They would not turn home.
rased
,They would not turn home.
Chapman.
☞ This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.
Rasing iron
, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
Syn. – To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.
Rase
,Verb.
I.
To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
[Obs.]
Rase
,Noun.
1.
A scratching out, or erasure.
[Obs.]
2.
A slight wound; a scratch.
[Obs.]
Hooker.
3.
(O. Eng. Law)
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Burrill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rase
RASE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To pass along the surface of a thing, with striking or rubbing it at the same time; to graze.Might not the bullet which rased his cheek, have gone into his head? Obs.
2.
To erase; to scratch or rub out; or to blot out; to cancel.[In this sense, erase is generally used.]
3.
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city.[In this sense, raze is generally used. This orthography, rase, may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it.]
RASE
, n1.
A cancel; erasure. [Not in use.]2.
A slight wound. [Not in use.]