Rase

raz, v. [rased (razd), easing.] To graze; to cancel, erase; to level with the ground, raze. [ME. rasen, to scrape, F. raser, to shave, lay level, graze, LL. rasare, to demolish, graze, L. radere, rasum, to scrape; L. rodere, to gnaw, Skr. rad, to split, divide, E. abrade, erase, rail, rascal, rodent, rash, an eruption, rat.] — Raze, v. [razed (razd), razing.] To erase, efface, obliterate, extirpate to lay level with the ground, demolish, subvert, ruin. — Razee', ra-ze'', n. (Naut.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut down, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate. — v. To cut down (a ship) to an inferior cla ; to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts. — Ra'zor, -zer, n. An instrument for shaving off the beard or hair. [F. rasoir, raser.] — Razors of a boar. A boar's tusks. — Ra'zor-bill, n. An aquatic fowl of the Arctic regions the common auk. — Ras'ure, Raz'ure, razh'ur, n. Act — of erasing or obliterating thing razed erasure. Raso'rial, -soli-al, a. Pert, to an order of gallinaceous birds which scrape the ground for food, as the domestic fowl, peacock, partridge, ostrich, pigeon, etc. [L. ras or, a scraper, radere.]