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Webster 1913 Edition
Rasure
Ra′sure
(rā′zhū̍r; 135)
, Noun.
1.
The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
2.
A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
Ayliffe.
2.
A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
[Local, U.S.]
3.
One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
[Cant]
☞ “It so chanced that, not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is the German or Norway, rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber as is said); and being much stronger than the black, or, till then, the common, rats, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George the First, but has by degrees obtained a wider meaning, and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics.”
Lord Mahon.
Bamboo rat
(Zool.)
, any Indian rodent of the genus
– Rhizomys
. Beaver rat
, Coast rat
(Zool.)
– Blind rat
(Zool.)
, the mole rat.
– Cotton rat
(Zool.)
, a long-haired rat (
– Sigmodon hispidus
), native of the Southern United States and Mexico. It makes its nest of cotton and is often injurious to the crop. Ground rat
. See
– Ground Pig
, under Ground
. Hedgehog rat
. See under
– Hedgehog
. Kangaroo rat
(Zool.)
, the potoroo.
– Norway rat
(Zool.)
, the common brown rat. See
– Rat
. Pouched rat
. (Zool.)
(a)
See
Pocket Gopher
, under Pocket
. (b)
Any African rodent of the genus
Cricetomys
. Rat Indians
(Ethnol.)
, a tribe of Indians dwelling near Fort Ukon,
– Alaska
. They belong to the Athabascan stock. Rat mole
. (Zool.)
See
– Mole rat
, under Mole
. Rat pit
, an inclosed space into which rats are put to be killed by a dog for sport.
– Rat snake
(Zool.)
, a large colubrine snake (
– Ptyas mucosus
) very common in India
and Ceylon
. It enters dwellings, and destroys rats, chickens, etc. Spiny rat
(Zool.)
, any South American rodent of the genus
– Echinomys
. To smell a rat
. See under
– Smell
. Wood rat
(Zool.)
, any American rat of the genus
Neotoma
, especially Neotoma Floridana
, common in the Southern United States
. Its feet and belly are white.Webster 1828 Edition
Rasure
RA'SURE
,Noun.
1.
The act of scraping or shaving; the act of erasing.2.
The mark by which a letter, word or any part of a writing is erased, effaced or obliterated; an erasure.Definition 2024
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See also: rasuré
English
Noun
rasure (plural rasures)
- (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
- (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.