1. (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.

2. (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.

3. (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

4. (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

5. (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.

6. (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.

7. (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by raising, or striking off, all that was above it.