Rasure

n.	1.	The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
	2.	A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.

RASURE. The scratching or scraping a writing, so as to prevent some part of it from being read. The word writing here is intended to include printing. Vide Addition; Erasure and Interlineation. Also 8 Vin. Ab. 169; 13 Vin. Ab. 37; Bac. Ab. Evidence, F.; 4 Com. Dig. 294; 7 Id. 202.