Rase

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A slight wound; a scratch.

II. Rase ·noun A scratching out, or erasure.

III. Rase ·vt To rub or scratch out; to Erase.

IV. Rase ·vt To rub along the surface of; to Graze.

V. Rase ·vi To be leveled with the ground; to Fall; to suffer overthrow.

VI. Rase ·vt To level with the ground; to Overthrow; to Destroy; to Raze.

VII. Rase ·noun 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.

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