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Pronunciation : Ra*zee"
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. vaisseau ras?, fr. raser to rase, to cut down ships. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. t.] (Naut.)
Definition : Defn: An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ra*zee"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

t. [imp. & p. p. Razeed; p. pr. & vb. n. Razeeing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913