[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rash \rash\, n. cf. f. ras short-nap cloth, it.  sp. raso
   satin cf. rase; or cf. it. rascia serge, g. rasch,
   probably fr. arras in france cf. arras.
   an inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
   obs. --donne.
   1913 webster
see also:
rase arras 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rash \rash\, a. compar. rasher -~er; superl. rashest.
   probably of scand. origin; cf. dan.  sw. rask quick, brisk,
   rash, icel. r"oskr vigorous, brave, akin to d.  g. rasch
   quick, of uncertain origin.
   1. sudden in action; quick; hasty. obs. "strong as aconitum
      or rash gunpowder." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. obs.
      1913 webster

            i scarce have leisure to salute you,
            my matter is so rash.                 --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little
      reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
      1913 webster

   5. so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
      prov. eng. --grose.
      1913 webster

   syn: precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty;
        indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless;
        inconsiderate; unwary.

   usage: 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.
          1913 webster

                was never known a more adventurous knight.
                                                  --dryden.
          1913 webster

                her rash hand in evil hour
                forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she
                eat.                              --milton.
          1913 webster

                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.    --hudibras.
          1913 webster
see also:
rasher rashest rash adventurous foolhardy 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rash \rash\ ra^sh, v. t. for arace.
   1. to pull off or pluck violently. obs.
      1913 webster

   2. to slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. obs.
      1913 webster

            rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rash \rash\, n. of. rasche an eruption, scurf, f. rache; fr.
   assumed ll. rasicare to scratch, fr. l. radere, rasum, to
   scrape, scratch, shave. see rase, and cf. rascal. med.
   a fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or
   no elevation.
   1913 webster

   canker rash. see in the vocabulary.

   nettle rash. see urticaria.

   rose rash. see roseola.

   tooth rash. see red-gum.
      1913 webster
see also:
rase rascal canker rash nettle rash urticaria rose rash 
roseola tooth rash red-gum 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rash \rash\ ra^sh, v. t.
   to prepare with haste. obs. --foxe.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rash
     adj 1: imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will
            forever repent"- george meredith
     2: 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" syn: foolhardy,
         reckless
     n 1: any red eruption of the skin syn: roseola, efflorescence,
           skin rash
     2: a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash
        of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" syn: blizzard
see also:
foolhardy reckless roseola efflorescence skin rash blizzard 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "rash":
   abrupt, abscess, adventuresome, adventurous, ague, anemia,
   ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy,
   audacious, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bold, brash, brazen,
   brazenfaced, breaking out, breakneck, breathless, cachexia,
   cachexy, careless, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion,
   coughing, cyanosis, daredevil, daring, dashing, deluge, dermatitis,
   devil-may-care, diaper rash, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy,
   drug rash, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eczema, edema,
   efflorescence, emaciation, epidemic, eruption, fainting, fatigue,
   fever, fibrillation, flood, flux, foolhardy, foolish, growth,
   hasty, headlong, heat rash, heedless, hemorrhage,
   high blood pressure, hives, hotheaded, hubristic, hydrops,
   hypertension, hypotension, icterus, ill-advised, ill-considered,
   impatient, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive,
   incautious, incogitant, inconsiderate, indigestion, indiscreet,
   inflammation, injudicious, insolent, insomnia, itching, jaundice,
   labored breathing, lots, low blood pressure, lumbago, madcap,
   marasmus, multitude, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis,
   nettle rash, numbers, outbreak, overbold, overcareless,
   overconfident, overhasty, oversure, overweening, pain, panting,
   papular rash, paralysis, plague, precipitant, precipitate,
   precipitous, prickly heat, profusion, pruritus, quantity, quick,
   quixotic, reckless, redness, rheum, rupia, sclerosis, seizure,
   series, shock, silly, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spate,
   succession, sudden, tabes, tachycardia, temerarious, thoughtless,
   tumor, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, unthinking, unwary,
   unwise, upset stomach, urticaria, vaccine rash, venturesome,
   venturous, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wave, wild

[8] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

rash, adj.  insensible to the value of our advice.

    "now lay your bet with mine, nor let
        these gamblers take your cash."
    "nay, this child makes no bet."  "great snakes
        how can you be so rash?"
                                                        bootle p. gish

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