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or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .

Capable of being blotted out or erased. "An impression easily deleble." Fuller.

Things to be erased or blotted out.

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.

Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.

To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.

To expunge; to erase. [Obs.]

as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

Capable of being erased.

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.] Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller.

A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.