I.to scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.
I. Lit.: “manibus quidquam abradere membris,” Lucr. 4, 1103; so id. 4, 1110: “supercilia penitus abrasa,” Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: “barbam in superiore labro,” Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162.—Of plants: “partes radicum,” to grub up, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82; cf. “arida,” Col. 10, 3: “abrasae fauces,” made rough, Luc. 6, 115: abrasa corpora, peeled off, ἀποσύρματα, Scrib. Comp. 215.—
II. Meton., to take or snatch away, to seize, extort, rob, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 19: “nihil a Caecinā litium terrore,” Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: “aliquid bohis,” Plin. Pan. 37, 2.
