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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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"Rash" Quotes from Famous Books

... the habitual wearing of spectacles was at first very irksome, but in time he adapted himself to them. Even defects have their compensations. He was naturally rash and daring, and his short sight undoubtedly acted as a check on an impetuous temperament. He early gave signs of unusual intelligence. His activity of body was as remarkable as his quickness of mind. At play and at work, with his toys as with his books, he displayed the same intensity; ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... the muskets. This made Captain Osborn most anxious to land as soon as possible, but as the savages were in such numbers, and the crew of the schooner did not consist of more than twenty-five men, the commander considered it was rash to make the attempt. He did, however, show the utmost anxiety to bring his schooner to an anchor, so as to protect his men, and then agreed that they ...

— Masterman Ready - The Wreck of the "Pacific" • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Roderic proposed a shudder of horror ran through the land. Nobles and bishops hastened to the audience chamber and sought to hinder the fateful purpose of the rash monarch. Their hearts were filled with dread of the perils that would follow any meddling with the magic spell, and they earnestly implored him not to bring the foretold disaster ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris

... combat is above seven thousand three hundred. The French own the loss of three thousand; I don't believe many more, for it was a most rash and desperate perseverance on our side. The Duke behaved very bravely and humanely; but this will ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... yourself, that you were depressed and unhappy, and I was confident that Mr. Willard was the cause of it; that it was on his account you refused to go to Europe with your guardian. It even seemed to me that you were almost on the point of taking some step, doing something rash, from which you instinctively shrank, and when I asked you to come home with me you seized the opportunity as a loophole of escape. Of course, I have not been blind and I have suspected that certain letters which have come to you here were from Mr. Willard, and when I saw him ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

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