de-ascio, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 1, ascio, to hew or cut with an axe, to smoothe. Lit. (late Lat.): deasciato stipiti, wrought, smoothed, Prud. στεφ. 10, 381.
— To rub out, efface: hunc titulum, Murat. Inscr. 1203, 9.
— Trop.: aliquem, to cheat, to chouse (cf. abrado), Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 11.