ad-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [ad, intens.], to scrape, shave, or pare close.
I Lit.: scobina ego illam actutum adraserim, Plaut. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 68 Müll.: adrasum cacumen, lopped off , Plin. 17, 19, 30, § 138: scalpello acuto (sarmentum) in modum cunei adradito, Col. Arb. 8: conspexit Adrasum quendam, newly shaved , Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 50.—
II Fig.: Λειτούργιον illud, nescio an satis, circumcisum tamen et adrasum est, i. e. if it be not yet completed , still it is nearly so (the fig. is prob. derived from sculpture), Plin. Ep. 2, 12 Keil.