Razing the characters of your renown. --Shak.
2. To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the
ground; to destroy; to demolish.
The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy. --Dryden.
Syn: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert;
destroy; ruin. See {Demolish}.
2. A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] --Hooker.
3. (O. Eng. Law) 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.
--Burrill.
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 water, and
at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
--Beckford.
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. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to
raze. [In this sense {rase} is generally used.]
Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They
would not turn home. --Chapman.
Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete;
graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.
{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.