| v. t. | 1. | To pull off or pluck violently. | ||||||||||||
| 2. | To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. | |||||||||||||
| n. | 1. | (Med.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
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| 1. | An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. | |||||||||||||
| a. | 1. | Sudden in action; quick; hasty. | ||||||||||||
| 2. | Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. | |||||||||||||
| 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; | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; | |||||||||||||
| 5. | So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. | |||||||||||||
| v. t. | 1. | To prepare with haste. | ||||||||||||
| Noun | 1. | rash - any red eruption of the skin |
| 2. | rash - a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" Synonyms: blizzard | |
| Adj. | 1. | rash - imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith |
| 2. | rash - marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center" |
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