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Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

ting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

Rashness; temerity. [R.] Spenser.

In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.

Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. [Obs.] Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning. Spenser.

Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.

d, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. -- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -…

train. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.

A rash, hot-headed man. Holinshed.

Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy.

The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.

In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.

uestion; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.

f lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. Milton.