Rash
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To prepare with haste.
(2): ( v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
(3): ( v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
(4): ( n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
(5): ( n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
(6): ( superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
(7): ( superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
(8): ( superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(9): ( superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(10): ( superl.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Rash, a.
1. Hasty in council or action precipitate resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution, and thus encountering unnecessary hazard applied to persons as a rash statesman or minister a rash commander. 2. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection as rash words rash measures. 3. Requiring haste urgent.
I have scarce leisure to salute you, my matter is so rash.
4. Quick sudden as rash gunpowder. Not in use.
Rash, n. Corn so dry as to fall out with handling. Local.
Rash, n.
1. Satin. 2. An eruption or efflorescence on the body.
Rash, To slice to cut into pieces to divide.
