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Entry 7 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Rase

/(rāz)/ · IPA /ɹeɪz/
01 v. t. To rub along the surface of; to graze.
imp. & p. p. Rased; p. pr. & vb. n. Rasing
  1. 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?” — South.
    “Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.” — Beckford.
  2. 2.
    To rub or scratch out; to erase.[Obsoles.]
    “Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.” — Fuller.
  3. 3.
    To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
    “Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home.” — Chapman.
Phrases & compounds
Rasing iron — a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
Syn. To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.
02 v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
  1. 1.
    To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.[Obs.]
03 n. A scratching out, or erasure.
  1. 1.
    A scratching out, or erasure.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    A slight wound; a scratch.[Obs.]
  3. 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.(O. Eng. Law)