RASE

noun a slight wound; a scratch.

2. rase ·noun a scratching out, or erasure.

3. rase ·vt to rub or scratch out; to erase.

4. rase ·vt to rub along the surface of; to graze.

5. rase ·vi to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

6. rase ·vt to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

7. rase ·noun 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.