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* rāsāmen, ĭnis, n. [rado], that which is scraped or shaved off, a scraping, shaving, Marc. Emp. 1 med.

rāsĭlis, e, adj. [rado], scraped, shaved, smoothed, polished, smooth, = levigatus (mostly poet.): torno rasile buxum, Verg. G. 2, 449: foris, Cat. 61, 168: fibula, Ov. M. 8, 318; Stat. Th. 7, 658: calathi, Ov. H. 9, 76: argentum, i. e. vessels without raised work, Vell. 2, 56, 2: hasta, Sil. 4, 176: palmes, deprived of the bark, Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 206: scopuli, smooth, i. e. without herbage, bare, Prud. στεφ. 3, 69.

rāsĭo, ōnis, f. [rado], a shaving, scraping: capitis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4: strigilis rasio est adhibenda corporibus, id. ib. 4, 7.

rāsis, is, f., a kind of raw pitch, Col. 12, 20, 6.

rāsĭto, āvi, 1, v. freq. a., to shave often, to shave (post-Aug. and very rare): faciem cotidie, Suet. Oth. 12: barbam, Gell. 3, 4, 3.

rāsōres fidicines dicti, quia videntur chordas ictu radere (qs. scrapers of the strings), Paul. ex Fest. p. 275, 2 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 274, 13 ib.

†† rasta, ae, f. [Germ.; O. H. Germ. rasta or rast, rest; Goth. rasta, a mile; cf. the Slav. werst], a German measure of a mile (late Lat.), Hier. in Joel, 3, 18.

rastellus, i, m. dim. [rastrum], a hoe, rake, mattock, Varr. L. L. 5, 31, 38; id. R. R. 1, 49, 1; Col. 2, 12, 6 (for which, id. 2, 10, 27, rastra), Suet. Ner. 19.

raster, tri, v. rastrum init.

rastrārĭus, a, um, adj. [rastrum], of or belonging to the hoe, i. e. to husbandry or a country life: Hypobolimaea, the title of a comedy of Cæcilius, Non. 16, 19; 40, 4; 89, 16 al.

rastrum, i, n., usually in plur., ra-stri, ōrum, m. (so nom. rastri, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.; Verg. G. 1, 164; Ov. M. 11, 36; acc. rastros, Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 11, 4; Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 36; 5, 1, 58 al.; but rastra, Cels. ap. Non. 222, 8; Ov. M. 14, 2; Juvenc. 15, 166; cf. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 94; 2, 421; Stat. Th. 3, 589) [rado], a toothed hoe, a rake, used for breaking up the soil, a mattock: rastris glebas qui frangit inertes, Verg. G. 1, 94: arva obnoxia rastris, id. ib. 2, 439; 3, 534; cf.: rastris terram domat, id. A. 9, 608: graves, Ov. M. 11, 36: vulnera Rastrorum fert tellus, id. ib. 2, 287: rastros quadridentes, Cato, l. l.: ligneis rastris sarriendus, Col. 2, 11, 4.
Comically spoken of as the comb of Polyphemus, with the sickle as his razor, Ov. M. 13, 765.
Prov.: si illi pergo suppeditare sumptibus, mihi illaec vero ad rastros res redit, it will bring me to the hoe, i. e. I shall be reduced to work for my living, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 58.

rāsūra, ae, f. [rastrum].

  1. I. Lit., a scraping, a shaving (post-Aug.): calami, Col. 4, 29, 9: barbae capitisque, Hier. in Isa. 5, 15, 2.
      1. 2. Concr., what is scraped or shaved off; a scraping, shaving: eboris, Veg. 1, 10, 6; 6 (4), 8, 8.
  2. II. Trop.: gulae, the harsh pronunciation of the gutturals by the Orientals, Hier. in Ep. Paul. ad Tit. 2, 9.

1. rāsus, a, um, Part., from rado.

* 2. rāsus, ūs, m. [rado], a scraping, shaving: ab rasu rastelli dicti, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.