▪ I. † ˈrasen Obs.
Forms: 1 ræsn, 4, 7 rasen, 6 rai-, raysin, 8 raison. See also reason n.2
[OE. ræsn, of obscure origin.]
= raising-piece.
| a 1000 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 280/7 Laquear, ræsn. c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 43 Asser, ræsn. 1338 in Parker Gloss. Archit. (1850) I. 380 Item in vj peciis meremii emptis pro rasens ad eandem domum. 1577 Harrison England ii. x[ii]. in Holinshed 84 b, To vse no studdes at all, but onlie..raysines,..groundselles,..transomes, and vpright principalles. 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words s.v. Pan, Pan..is that piece of wood that lies upon the top of the stone wall,..to which the bottom of the spars are fastned: in timber buildings in the South it is called the rasen, or resen, or resening. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 30 Tennons are..made on the Posts to go into the Raisons. Ibid. 31 The vacant space betwixt the Raison and the Roof. |
▪ II. rasen
obs. form of raise v., raisin.