Word Meanings - ERASURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

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• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• ERASTIAN
  One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day,
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• SCRATCHER
  One who, or that which, scratches; specifically , any rasorial bird.
• SCRATCH
  cf. OHG. chrazz, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, 1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly
• ERASURE
  The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
• ERASION
  The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
• ERASTIANISM
  The principles of the Erastains.
• ERASEMENT
  The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.
• ERASE
  1. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name. 2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.
• OBLITERATION
  The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.
• SCRATCHY
  Characterized by scratches.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• SCRATCHBRUSH
  A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
• ERASED
  Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped. (more info) 1. Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
• ERASER
  One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
• ERASABLE
  Capable of being erased.
• SCRATCHWORK
  See COAT
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• PTEROCERAS
  A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.
• CERASIN
  A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.
• EPICERASTIC
  Lenient; assuaging.
• KERASINE
  Resembling horn; horny; corneous.
• PEDERASTIC
  Of or pertaining to pederasty.
• SERASKIERATE
  The office or authority of a seraskier.
• CHAPARERAS
  See CHAPARAJOS
• PEDERAST
  One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
• COPPERAS
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.
• DINOCERAS
  A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair