v. Obs. Forms: 4–6 arace, 5 aras(e, 6 Sc. arraise. [a. AF. arace-r, OF. aracier, Norman dial. f. arachier: see ARACHE. Arace was much the commoner in ME.] To pull up by the roots; to tear up or away, pull or snatch away; to tear.
c. 1315. Shoreham, 95. That he hyt wolde arace.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Clerkes T., 1047. Whan sche gan hem tembrace … The children from her arm they gonne arace [v.r. race, rase].
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, III. iv. (1483), 52. These hokes to renten and a racid two caitifs.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VII. xxxv. 127. And wyth gret strynth owt can aras Ðe Trownsown, þat þare stekand was.
a. 1440. Morte Arth., 4099. Ȝif any renke theme arase, reschowe theme sone.
1530. Palsgr., 435/2. I arace, I pull a thyng by violence from one, Je arrache.
