Rase

/ɹeɪz/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive, archaic) To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, archaic) To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
2. (transitive, archaic) Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
3. Alternative spelling of raze.
4. An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
5. Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).
6. (obsolete, rare) A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.
7. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.

Example Sentences

[T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]

So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]

[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]

But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base.

[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.

Raſe a ſcrapyng

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?

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?

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