rasure noun. ['reɪʒǝ] Now rare. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin rasura, from ras-: see RAZE verb, -URE.]
1. The action or an act of scraping or shaving; a scratch, a slit, a mark. LME-E18.
b. A particle or (collect.) particles scraped off. LME-M17.

2. The action or an act of scraping out something written; (an) erasure. LME.
b. transf. Obliteration, effacement; cancelling. E17.

3. The action or an act of shaving the head, hair, etc.; a tonsure. L15-M18.

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