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 the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller.

Till Troy were by their brave hands rased,
They would not turn home. Chapman.

* This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.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.