(a) To scrape (sth.); also, shave (sb., somebody's crown); (b) to make erasures; erase (writing, a passage of writing, etc.); scrape (a page, book) clean; emend (a document) by erasure; ~ awei (oute); (c) in various fig. senses: to expunge (sth.), obliterate (sb.), alter (belief); (d) ppl. rased as adj., of a strickle: smoothed.

(a) To strip off (an outer covering), pull (sth.) off; ~ awei (of); (b) to tear out (sth.), pluck out; root out (trees, etc.); also fig.; ~ oute (up); (c) to pull away (sb. or sth.), snatch; also fig.; ~ awei; (d) to pull down (sb. or sth.), knock (sth.) down; ~ a)doun; (e) to come apart, tear; tear (sb. or sth.) apart, rend (one's garments); (f) to deprive (a city) of money, pick clean, strip.

(a) To cleave (sth.), slice, cut apart; sever (an arm, etc.); ppl. rased as adj.: broken; ~ awei, cut off (sth.); ~ doun, mow down (helmets); (b) to lacerate (sb.), slash; cut into (a shield, armor), score; tear (someone's flesh, body, etc.); fig. pierce (a heart); (c) to carve (sth.), engrave; also fig.; ppl. rased as adj.: embossed; rased bitwixen, carved in relief, embossed; (d) to dig (the ground), trench; ~ for, ?dig for (gold); in ~, dig, delve; (e) to slash (shoes) ornamentally.

Her. ppl. i)rased as adj.: (a) of the head of a raven, etc.: drawn with a jagged base as if torn from the body, erased; (b) of arms: quartered by jagged borders produced by the scraping away of paint.