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noun

Rase n.

1.

A scratching out, or erasure. (Obs.)

2.

A slight wound; a scratch. (Obs.)

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.

verb

Rase v. t. (past & past part. rased; pres. part. 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?" "Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose."

2.

To rub or scratch out; to erase. (Obsoles.) "Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind."

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 rased, They would not turn home." Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.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.

Synonyms: To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.

Raze v. t. (past & past part. razed; pres. part. razing) (Written also rase)

1.

To erase; to efface; to obliterate. "Razing the characters of your renown."

2.

To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. "The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy."

Synonyms: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.

Rase v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rase" Quotes from Famous Books

... now confirmest the same In the seed of me. Forsooth great is thy goodness. I cannot perceive but that thy mercy is endless. To such as fear thee, in every generation, For it endureth without abbreviation. This have I printed in deep consideration, No worldly matter can rase it out of mind. For once it will be the final restoration Of Adam and Eve, and other that hath sinned; Yea, the sure health and race of mankind. Help have the faithful thereof, though they be infect; They, ...

— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous

... d'eau, les toise et les mesure, Les meprise en sachant qu'il en est ecrase, Soumet son ame au poids de la matiere impure Et se sent mort ainsi que son vaisseau rase. —A de certains moments, l'ame est sans resistance; Mais le penseur s'isole et n'attend d'assistance Que de la forte foi dont il ...

— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... it should be - sacred and unalterable in the hands of those where the community has placed it, depends entirely upon the breath of a minister, or of any man: But it is to be feared from this as well as other more recent instances, that there is a design to rase the foundations of the constitutions of these colonies, and place them upon this precarious and sandy foundation. - I have seen a letter from the agent of this province to the government here, dated so long ago as March the 7th, 1750; wherein he says, "I am afraid there is at bottom in the minds ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams

... had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if the paddlers were ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... auld captain—as deid as ever was man 'at had nane left to greit for him. But thof there was nae greitin', no but sic a hullabaloo as rase upo' the discovery! They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

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