Rasure

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rasure \Ra"sure\ (r[=a]"zh[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rasura, fr.
     radere, rasum, to scrape, to shave. See {Rase}, v.]
     1. The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure;
        obliteration.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing
        or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
        --Ayliffe.
        [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RASURE. The scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of 
  it from being read. The word writing here is intended to include printing. 
  Vide Addition; Erasure and Interlineation. Also 8 Vin. Ab. 169; 13 Vin. Ab. 
  37; Bac. Ab. Evidence, F.; 4 Com. Dig. 294; 7 Id. 202.