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To beat or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

A figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.

Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.] My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

oration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. I. Watts.

equence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.

Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] Southey.

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

play a hand without the assistance of one's partner. -- To go it blind. (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. [Slang] (b) (Card Playing) To bet without having examined the cards. -- To go one's way, to set forth; to depart.

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum. -- Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.

A fury; a she-monster. Grashaw.

term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.