Rash
Rash (rash) , transitive verb
[For arace.]
1.
To pull off or pluck violently. [Obsolete]
2.
To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. [Obsolete]
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.
Rash , noun
[Old French rasche an eruption, scurf, French rache; from (assumed) Late Latin rasicare to scratch, from Latin radere, rasum, to scrape, scratch, shave. See Rase, and compare Rascal.]
(Medicine) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Rash , noun
[Compare French ras short-nap cloth, Italian & Sp. raso satin (compare Rase); or compare Italian rascia serge, German rasch, probably from Arras in France (compare Arras).]
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obsolete] — Donne
Rash (-ẽr) , adjective
[Probably of Scand. origin; compare Danish & Swedish rask quick, brisk, rash, Icelandic roskr vigorous, brave, akin to Dutch & German rasch quick, of uncertain origin.]
1.
Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obsolete]
Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.
2.
Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obsolete]
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. [Provincial English] — Grose
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.
Rash (rash) , transitive verb
To prepare with haste. [Obsolete] — Foxe