Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rasus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

RA'SUS (ξεστός). Close shaved with a razor; both with respect to the beard and hair of the head (Cic. Rosc. Com. 7. Aul. Gell. iii. 4.: and woodcut s. LINIGER); as opposed to tonsus, which means clipped or cut short with scissors.