rasure (razur)

[Early mod. E. also razure; With the tooth of a small beast like a rat they race some their faces, some their bodies, after diuers formes, as if it were with the scratch of a pin, the print of which rasure can neuer be done away againe during life. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 674. A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. Shak ., M. for M., v. 1. 13. 21. Same as erasure . There were many razures in the book of the treasury. Bp. Burnet.