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adjective

Brash adj. Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash adj. Brittle, as wood or vegetables. (Colloq., U. S.)

noun

Brash n.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. (Prov. Eng.)

(Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Broken fragments of ice.

Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis.

Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brash" Quotes from Famous Books

... home in the garden they will hardly move till all are destroyed. Aristotle mentions the diseases of swine, so it will not be amiss to record that in the country swine are supposed to suffer from water-brash, and to relieve themselves by eating dry earth, for which purpose those that run loose are continually tearing up the ground. Human beings so affected show a similar tendency for dry food, as oatmeal. Sometimes the liver of calves and bullocks is small and dry, of very little ...

— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... store suit of clothes, that little round brown hat, more often a cap, pulled rather savagely and vulgarly, even insultingly, over one eye; that coarse frieze overcoat, still worn on cold spring days, its "corners" back and front turned up by the damp and from being indifferently sat on; that brash corn-cob pipe and bag of cheap tobacco, extracted and lit at odd moments; what, that youth with the aggressive, irritating vibrant manner—almost the young tough with a chip on his shoulder looking for one to even so much as indicate that he is not all he should be! Positively, ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

... was nae manager—no that he was a very great misguider—but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi' fair word and piping; but when Martinmas came, there was a summons from the grund-officer to come wi' the rent on a day preceese, or else Steenie behoved to flit. Sair wark he had to get the siller; but ...

— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various

... neenter to be so brash," drawled Mr. Pinson's son-in-law, Sam Leggett, from his perch on a barrel of pecans; "jest you wait ontell Minty Cullum an' Loo Slater gits a tight holt! Them gals is ez meek ez lambs—now. But so was Mis' Pinson an' Mis' Trimble in ...

— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

... before putting this new accomplishment to use. Nor did Jimmy bother him. It was a satisfactory arrangement for the time being. Jimmy hid his "work" under a pile of raw paper and completed it in late August. Then, with the brash assurance of youth, he packed and mailed his first finished manuscript to the editor ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

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