RASH

To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.]

To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.] Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser.

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.

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

Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] "Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder." Shak.

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.] I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash. Shak.

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.

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov. Eng.]

To prepare with haste. [Obs.] Foxe.