rash

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RASH, adjective 1. Hasty in council or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution, and thus encountering unnecessary hazard; applied to persons; as a rash statesman or minister; a rash commander. 2. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as rash words; rash measures. 3. Requiring haste; urgent. I have scarce leisure to salute you, my matter is so rash 4. Quick; sudden; as rash gunpowder. [Not in use.] RASH, noun Corn so dry as to fall out with handling. [Local.] RASH, noun 1. Satin. 2. An eruption or efflorescence on the body. RASH, verb transitive To slice; to cut into pieces; to divide.
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