Rash /(răsh)/

Rash

v. t.
  1. To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.]
  2. To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. [Obs.]
    Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.

Rash

n.
  1. A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. (Med.)

Phrases & Compounds
Canker rash
See in the Vocabulary.
Nettle rash
See Urticaria.
Rose rash
See Roseola.
Tooth rash
See Red-gum.

Rash

n.
  1. An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obs.]

Rash

a.
  1. Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.]
  2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]
    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. [Prov. Eng.]
    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.
    — Hudibras.

Rash

v. t.
  1. To prepare with haste. [Obs.]