I.to make sharp or pointed, sharpen, whet, Hes.
2.to furnish with notches or teeth, like a saw, Arist.:—Pass., σκύταλον κεχ. ὄζοις a staff jagged or rugged with branches, Theocr.: metaph., [ὄμμα] ἠλεμάτοις ἀκτῖσι χαράσσεται sparkles with false lights, of the effect produced by painting the eye-lids, Anth.
3.metaph. in Pass., κεχαραγμένος τινί exasperated at any one, Hdt.; κείνῳ τόδε μὴ χαράσσου be not angry at him for this, Eur.
II.to cut into furrows, cut, scratch, Pind.:—Pass., κέκοπται καὶ χαράσσεται πέδον Aesch.
III.to engrave, inscribe, Theocr., Anth.
