deascio

dĕ-ascĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [1, ascio], to hew or cut with an axe, to smoothe.

I.

Lit. (late Lat.): deasciato stipiti, wrought, smoothed, Prud. steph. 10, 381.—

B.

To rub out, efface: hunc titulum, Murat. Inscr. 1203, 9.—

II.

Trop.: aliquem, to cheat, to chouse (cf. abrado), Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 11.