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Rash   /ræʃ/   Listen
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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"Rash" Quotes from Famous Books



... last moments we incline rather to praise Nikias than to blame Crassus. Nikias, a skilful and experienced commander, did not share the rash hopes of his countrymen, but never thought that Sicily could be conquered, and dissuaded them from making the attempt. Crassus, on the other hand, urged the Romans to undertake the war with Parthia, ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... not right," said Ben, "it is not right. Why did they give the old man so much grace? Witness and evidence are what they lack. Would you trust Stukeley—not to draw him out? Raleigh was always rash. A phrase or two Will turn their murderous axe into a sword ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... well appear rash, seeing how imperfect I was, and am, even now, after so many years of religious life; yet I still feel the same daring confidence that one day I shall become a great Saint. I am not trusting in my own merits, for I have none; but I trust in Him Who ...
— The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux • Therese Martin (of Lisieux)
... has written a universal history, in which he attempts the philosophical style. Though vivid in his narratives, descriptions, and details, he is often incorrect in Ms statements, and rash in his judgments; his work, though professing liberal views, is essentially conservative in its tendency. The same faults may be discovered in his more ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... a sort of skin affection; a "rash," which is said to be caused by eating so much meat, especially fats, without taking sufficient exercise. A few sulphur baths at specially prepared places behind the lines soon ...
— The Emma Gees • Herbert Wes McBride


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