rase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāz
ipa: /ɹeɪz/
text: -
homophone: raise
homophone: rays
homophone: raze
homophone: rehs
homophone: réis
homophone: res
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: rases
Etymology: A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.
Senses: examples: text: Raſe a ſcrapyng
ref: [1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Substantyues”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio lviii, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
text: Perceaue vve not hovv they vvhoſe tenderneſſe ſhrinketh at the leaſt raſe of a needles point, do kiſſe the ſvvord that pearceth their ſoules quite through?
ref: a. 1601 (date written), Richard Hooker, A Remedie against Sorrow and Feare, Delivered in a Funerall Sermon, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold by John Barnes […], published 1612, →OCLC, page 9:
text: And did the Villaines lay ſuch load on, and yet ſet ſo light by my Sauiours [Jesus's] ſtripes; the drops of vvhoſe blood, the raſe of vvhoſe skinne, skarres of vvhoſe fleſh, ach of vvhoſe finger, vvas more then the torment of their vvretched Bodyes, and loſſe of their damned Soules?
ref: 1629, John Gaule, “Practique Theories: Or, Votiue Speculations vpon Christ’s Passion”, in Practique Theories: Or, Votiue Speculations, vpon Iesus Christs Prediction. Incarnation. Passion. Resurrection. […], London: […] [Thomas Cotes] for James Bowler […], →OCLC, page 266:
glosses: An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
examples: text: And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying on gold, the leſſe vvas the art ſeene of the firſt vvorkman [Lysippos], ſo that it loſt all the beautie and grace that it had by that means, he cauſed the gold to be taken off againe: and verely, the ſaid image thus unguilded as it vvas, ſeemed farre more precious than it vvas vvhiles it ſtood ſo enriched vvith gold, notvvithſtanding all the hackes, cuts, gaſhes, and raſes all over the bodie vvherein the gold did ſticke, remained ſtill, vvhich in ſome ſort might disfigure it.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXIV.] Of 366 Excellent Peeces of Worke in Brasse, and as Many Cunning Artificers in that Kind.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 499:
text: [T]ake the Cold-Chiſſel in your left hand, and ſet the edge of it upon that mark or raſe, and vvith the Hand Hammer in your right hand ſtrike upon the Head of the Cold-Chiſſel, till you cut, or rather punch the edge of the Cold-Chiſſel almoſt through the Plate in that place: […]
ref: 1678 January 11 – February 11 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] II. Applied to the Making of Hinges, Locks, Keys, Screws and Nuts Small and Great. Of Hinges.”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume I, London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1683, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).