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e.[Obsoles.] Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

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

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

Same as Brazen.

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

The operation performed with an écraseur.

An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

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.

Same as Vesuvianite.

version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

Translated literally.

of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense. Dryden. Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli. His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice.…

One who paraphrases.

A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.