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▪ I. rasure1 Now rare.|ˈreɪzjʊə(r)|
Also 7–9 raz-.
[a. F. rasure (1235 in Godef.), or ad. L. rāsūra: see rase v.1 and -ure.]
†1. The act of scraping or shaving (also fig.); a scratch, mark, cut, slit. Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur xviii. xxv, Lyke as wynter rasure doth always a rase and deface grene somer, soo..for a lytel blast of wynters rasure anone we shalle deface and lay a parte true loue. 1599Hakluyt Voy. III. 674 They race some their faces, some their bodies,..the print of which rasure can neuer bee done away againe during life. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. vi. (1632) 42 Carrying these rasures on their pictured limbes. 1721Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. (1738) 250 Soaking Pledgits of clean Hurds in this Mixture, and laying them pretty warm on the Razures or Chinks.
†b. A particle, or the particles, scraped off.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 135, I leie on þe schauynge or ellis þe rasure of lynnen clooþ. 1669Evelyn Sylva (1776) 324 The wood should be cut about May and the Rasures well dried.
†2. The act of shaving (the head, hair, etc.); tonsure. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 111/1 Saynt denys..sayth the rasure and cuttyng of of the heer signefyeth pure lyf. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 726 marg., The Popish rasure ministred unto Clerks at the first receit of their Cleargie. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 11 They had no razure commanded, onely it was prouided that they should not haue their haire long. 1737Whiston Josephus (1755) IV. 333 Their heads were sooty: they had round rasures on them.
3. The act of scraping out something written; an erasure. (Freq. in 16–18th c.)
1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxii. Wks. (1876) 24 We fyrste scrape the paper, and by that rasure or scraping sumwhat is taken awaye of the letters. 1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 28/1 Such writings obligatorie if they haue any razure in them in any materiall place are of no credit in law. a1734North Lives Norths (1742) I. 115 She had very credible information that there was a foul rasure in Sir John Cuts's will. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 208/2 A specimen of his continual corrections and critical rasures.
b. transf. Obliteration, effacement; cancelling.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 13 A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of obliuion. 1670Marvell Let. to W. Ramsden Wks. (1875) I. 410 When we began to talk of the Lords, the King sent for us alone, and recommended a rasure of all proceedings. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 41 Impressed upon the mind so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. IV. lxv. (1806) 780 That a general razure should be made of all transactions with regard to that disputed question.
▪ II. † rasure2 Obs. rare.
Also 5 -our.
[a. OF. rasure (Godef.); cf. Pg. rasoura.]
= raser1.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon viii. 187 The rasour of whete was solde for fourty shelynges and twenty pence. 1526Tolls in Dillon Calais & Pole (1892) 89 Item, for evry Rasure of Lyme qr.
▪ III. rasure
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