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See Raspatory.

A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.

fruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.

One who, or which, rasps; a scraper.

The raspberry. [Obs.] Langham.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. R. D. Blackmore.

A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

Producing abrasion. Ure.

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Pertaining to antiphrasis. -- An`ti*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

= Dumbness.