rase

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive)To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

   “[T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]”

   “So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]”

2. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, transitive)Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).

   “[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]”

   “But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base.”

3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.”

4. (transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]”

   “Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jeruſalem; who ſayd, raſe it, raſe it: euen to the foundation thereof.”

   “[A]fter they had deſtroyed Religion, they pulled dovvn Churches, (as being then of no Uſe) and raſed the nobleſt Structures in the Land, to ſell the Materials; […]”

   “Thou vvoundeſt the Head of the Houſe of the VVicked; / Thou raſedſt the Foundation even to the Rock; / Thou piercedſt thro' vvith thy Scepter the Head of the Villages.”

5. (figuratively, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […]”

6. (also, figuratively, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.”

   “[N]o malice of ſucceeding daies, / can raſe thoſe records of thy laſting praiſe.”

   “The painefull vvarrier famoſed for vvorth, / After a thouſand victories once foild, / Is from the booke of honour raſed quite, / And all the reſt forgot for vvhich he toild: […]”

   “Though of their Names in heavenly Records novv / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.”

   “Inſcription is an Obligation made in VVriting, vvhereby the Accuſer binds himſelf to undergo the ſame Puniſhment, if he ſhall not prove the Crime vvhich he objects to the Party accuſed in his accuſatory Libel, […] And if ſuch Articles are not legally inſcrib'd, as aforeſaid, then the Name of the Defendant ſhall be raſed out, and the Defendant ſhall be reſtor'd to his former ſtate of Innocence.”

7. (regional, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?”

8. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.
9. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

   “[Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the Plate: […]”

10. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.
11. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […]”

    “Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.”

12. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […]”

13. (obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “[A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée.”

14. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “Dravv forth thy ſvvord, thou mightie man at armes, / Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin: / And Ioue himſelfe vvill ſtretch his hand from heauen, / To vvard the blovv, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]”

    “VVheels o'er the harden'd VVaters ſmoothly glide, / And raſe vvith vvhiten'd Tracks the ſlipp'ry Tide.”

15. (intransitive, obsolete)Alternative spelling of raze.
16. (intransitive, obsolete)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes.”

17. (intransitive, obsolete)Alternative spelling of raze.

    “[O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]”

18. (intransitive, obsolete, rare)Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.

noun

1. (obsolete)An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.

   “Raſe a ſcrapyng”

   “Perceaue vve not hovv they vvhoſe tenderneſſe ſhrinketh at the leaſt raſe of a needles point, do kiſſe the ſvvord that pearceth their ſoules quite through?”

   “And did the Villaines lay ſuch load on, and yet ſet ſo light by my Sauiours [Jesus's] ſtripes; the drops of vvhoſe blood, the raſe of vvhoſe skinne, skarres of vvhoſe fleſh, ach of vvhoſe finger, vvas more then the torment of their vvretched Bodyes, and loſſe of their damned Soules?”

2. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).

   “[T]ake the Cold-Chiſſel in your left hand, and ſet the edge of it upon that mark or raſe, and vvith the Hand Hammer in your right hand ſtrike upon the Head of the Cold-Chiſſel, till you cut, or rather punch the edge of the Cold-Chiſſel almoſt through the Plate in that place: […]”

3. (obsolete, rare)A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.

   “Toll ſhall be taken by the Raſe, and not by the Heap or Cantel. Ordinance for Bakers, Brevvers, &c. cap. 4. it ſeems to have been a meaſure of Corn, novv diſuſed”

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Royal Agricultural Society of England.
2. A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.