Definition of "rase"

rase

/ɹeɪz/

noun
plural rases
1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
  Quotations
  But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.
  1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89
  The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes
  1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse
  Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,
  1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89
2. A slight wound; a scratch.
3. 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
third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased
1. (obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
  Quotations
  For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?
  1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], page 317
  Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.
  1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, page 103
2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
  Quotations
  The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,After a thouſand victories once foild,Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  Though we carry a ſimple and ſingle remembrance of our loſſes unto the grave, it being impoſſible to do other-waies (except we raze the faculty of memory Roote and Branch out of our mind) yet let us not keep any record of them with the leaſt reflection of revenge.
  1660, Thomas Fuller, “Name General”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], page 17
  Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 361–363
3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
  Quotations
  […] till Troy were by their brave hands rac'd, / They would not turn home: […]The spelling has been modernized.
  , Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, page 58
4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

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