||Ra`sante" (rȧ`zäNt"), a.
[F., p. pr. of raser to graze.] (Fort.) Sweeping;
grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command
of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low,
in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground
before them. H. L. Scott.