BRASH

a. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.

2.
a.

Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.

3.
n.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

4.
n.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

5.
n.

Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.

6.
n.

Broken fragments of ice. Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

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