▪ I. † aˈrace, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 arace, 5 aras(e, 6 Sc. arraise.
[a. AF. arace-r, OF. aracier, Norman dial. f. arachier: see arache. Arace was much the commoner in ME.]
To pull up by the roots; to tear up or away, pull or snatch away; to tear.
| c 1315 Shoreham 95 That he hyt wolde arace. c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 1047 Whan sche gan hem tembrace..The children from her arm they gonne arace [v.r. race, rase]. 1413 Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iii. iv. (1483) 52 These hokes to renten and a racid two caitifs. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. xxxv. 127 And wyth gret strynth owt can aras Ðe Trownsown, þat þare stekand was. a 1440 Morte Arth. 4099 Ȝif any renke theme arase, reschowe theme sone. 1530 Palsgr. 435/2, I arace, I pull a thyng by violence from one, Je arrache. |
▪ II. arace
var. arase v. Obs. to raze, erase.