rasure

The act of scraping or shaving; a rasing or erasing; a scratch.

Same as erasure.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.

Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.

Obliteration, destruction.

Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.