Rase

To rub along the surface of; to graze.

To rub or scratch out; to erase.

To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

A scratching out, or erasure.

A slight wound; a scratch.

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.