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erase erased eras·ing : to seal and protect (criminal records) from disclosure ...
Eraser
One who or that which erases esp a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings drawings etc...
Erasable
Capable of being erased...
Erase
To rub or scrape out as letters or characters written engraved or painted to efface to expunge to cross out as to erase a word or a name...
Erasement
The act of erasing a rubbing out expunction obliteration...
Erasion
The act of erasing a rubbing out obliteration...
Couped
Cut off smoothly as distinguished from erased used especially for the head or limb of an animal See Erased...
palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...
Blackboard
A broad board painted black or any black surface on which writing drawing or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons It is much used in schools In late 20th century similar boards of a green slate as well as some colored white became common wrioting on the slate bioards may be done with chalk but writing on the white boards is done with colored pens such as grease pens which leaves a trace that can be easily erased The newer boards usualy called chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards...
Caoutchouc
A tenacious elastic gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America esp the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc Asia and Africa Being impermeable to liquids and gases and not readly affected by exposure to air acids and alkalies it is used especially when vulcanized for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures Also called India rubber because it was first brought from India and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks and gum elastic See Vulcanization...
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