RASES
Noun
rases
plural of rase
Anagrams
• SASER, Sears, arses, rasse, sarse, sears
Source: Wiktionary
RAS
Ras, n.
Definition: See 2d Reis.
RASE
Rase, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rased; p. pr. & vb. n. Rasing.] Etym: [F.
raser, LL. rasare to scrape often, v. freq. fr. L. radere, rasum, to
scrape, shave; cf. Skr. rad to scratch, gnaw, L. rodere to gnaw. Cf.
Raze, Razee, Razor, Rodent.]
1. To rub along the surface of; to graze.[Obsoles.]
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erase, and raze, having superseded it.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.
Rase, v. i.
Definition: To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
[Obs.]
Rase, n.
1. A scratching out, or erasure. [Obs.]
2. A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] Hooker.
3. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition