Definitions for the word "rash" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To pull off or pluck violently.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. superl.
Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. superl.
Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. superl.
Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. superl.
So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To prepare with haste.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. adj.
Reckless, impetuous, hasty. rashly adv. Rashness n. [probably old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. n.
1 eruption of the skin in spots or patches. 2 (usu. Foll. By of) sudden widespread phenomenon (rash of strikes). [origin uncertain]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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