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rash1

[rash] Pronunciation Key

–adjective -er, -est.

1.	acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.

2.	characterized by or showing too great haste or lack of consideration: rash promises.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; c. D, G rasch quick, brisk, ON rǫskr brave

]

—Related forms

rashly, adverb

rashness, noun

—Synonyms 1. hasty, impetuous, reckless, venturous, incautious, precipitate, indiscreet, foolhardy.

—Antonyms 1. cautious.

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rash2

[rash] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	an eruption or efflorescence on the skin.

2.	a multitude of instances of something occurring more or less during the same period of time: a rash of robberies last month.

[Origin: 1700–10; < F rache (obs.), OF rasche skin eruption, deriv. of raschier to scratch, ult. < L rādere to scratch

]

—Related forms

rashlike, adjective

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rash¹ (rāsh) Pronunciation Key
adj. rash·er, rash·est

Characterized by or resulting from ill-considered haste or boldness. See Synonyms at reckless.
Archaic Quick in producing a strong or marked effect.

[Middle English rasch, active, unrestrained, perhaps from Old English -raesc (in līgræsc, lightning) or from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German rasch, fast.]

rash'ly adv., rash'ness n.

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rash² (rāsh) Pronunciation Key
n.

A skin eruption.
An outbreak of many instances within a brief period: a rash of burglaries.

[Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus, past participle of rādere; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.]

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rash (adj.)

c.1300, "nimble, quick, vigorous," a Scottish and northern word, perhaps from O.E. -ræsc (cf. ligræsc "flash of lightning"), from P.Gmc. *raskuz (cf. M.L.G. rasch, M.Du. rasc "quick, swift," Ger. rasch "quick, fast"). Related to O.E. horsc "quick-witted." Sense of "reckless, impetuous, heedless of consequences" is attested from 1509.

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rash (n.)

"red spots on skin," 1709, perhaps from Fr. rache "a sore," from O.Fr. rache "ringworm," from V.L. *rasicare "to scrape" (cf. O.Prov. rascar, Sp. rascar "to scrape, scratch," It. raschina "itch"), from L. rasus "scraped," pp. of radere "to scrape" (see raze). The connecting notion is of itching. Sense of "any sudden outbreak or proliferation" first recorded 1820.

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rash
adjective
1.	imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
2.	marked by 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 Mount Everest" [syn: foolhardy]
noun
1.	any red eruption of the skin
2.	a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"

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rash (rāsh)
n.
A skin eruption.

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Rash

Rash\, v. t. [For arace]

1. To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.]

2. To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.]

Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. --Spenser.

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Rash

Rash\, n. [OF. rashe 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.

Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary.

Nettle rash. See Urticaria.

Rose rash. See Roseola.

Tooth rash. See Red-gum.

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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.

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Rash

Rash\, a. [Compar. Rasher; superl. Rashest.] [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk, rash, Icel. r["o]skr 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.

2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]

I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash. --Shak.

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.]

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.

Was never known a more adventurous knight. --Dryden.

Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. --Milton.

If any yet to be foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honors got by such a maim. --Hudibras.

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Rash

Rash\, v. t. To prepare with haste. [Obs.] --Foxe.

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