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noun

Rash n. (Med.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary.

Nettle rash. See Urticaria.

Rose rash. See Roseola.

Tooth rash. See Red-gum.

Rash n. An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. (Obs.)

adjective

Rash adj. (compar. rasher; superl. rashest)

1.

Sudden in action; quick; hasty. (Obs.) "Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder."

2.

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. (Obs.) "I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash."

3.

Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

4.

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

5.

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. (Prov. Eng.)

Synonyms: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary. Rash, Adventurous, Foolhardy. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences. "Was never known a more adventurous knight." "Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat." "If any yet be so foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honor's got by such a maim."

verb

Rash v. t.

1.

To pull off or pluck violently. (Obs.)

2.

To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. (Obs.) "Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder."

Rash v. t. To prepare with haste. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Rash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Little Lord Fauntleroy • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... in some public print, probably The Times, that an American gentleman, at such an address, desired to arrange with a competent young man for the tuition at home of his three sons. The effect of his rash failure to invite application by letter only was the assault of an army of visitors who filled us with consternation; they hung about the door, cumbered the hall, choked the staircase and sat grimly individual in odd corners. ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

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— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

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— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

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