v. t.
Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head? South. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford. [ 1913 Webster ]
Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
Till Troy were by their brave hands rased,
They would not turn home. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it. [ 1913 Webster ]
Rasing iron,
v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.