Definitions For Rasure

Noun

RASURE. (countable and uncountable, plural RASUREs) (now, _, rare, legal) scraping, scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally. (now, _, rare) obliteration, obliteration, destruction. (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, xno, rasure}}, {{der, en, frm, rasure}}, from Latin rāsūra ("scraping, shaving"), from the participle stem of rādere, t=to scrape, shave.