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Rasure

Rasure \Ra"sure\ (r[=a]"zh[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rasura, fr. radere, rasum, to scrape, to shave. See Rase, v.]

  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.

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rasure

n. 1 (context now rare legal English) scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally. 2 (context now rare English) obliteration, destruction. 3 (context obsolete English) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.

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For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman.