[rash] 
| 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. |
[rash] | 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. |
| rash 1 (rāsh) adj. rash·er, rash·est
[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. |
| rash 2 (rāsh) n.
[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.] |
rash (rāsh)
n.
A skin eruption.