v. t. - To rub along the surface of; to graze.
v. t. - To rub or scratch out; to erase.
v. t. - To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
v. i. - To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
n. - A scratching out, or erasure.
n. - A slight wound; a scratch.
n. - A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.