rase

Meanings

Noun

• A scratching out, or erasure.
• A slight wound; a scratch.
• 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

• To rub along the surface of; to graze.
• To rub or scratch out; to erase.
• To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
• To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

Origin

• From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.