to rub along the surface of; to graze.-to rub or scratch out; to erase.-to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.-to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.-a scratching out, or erasure.-a slight wound; a scratch.-a way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.