Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Razoe \Ra*zoe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Razeed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Razeeing}.]
   To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an
   inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge
   by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or
   an article.