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a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw.

To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

To thrash; to beat. [Low]

To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] Beau. & Fl.

wing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

Hot-headed; rash. Shak. -- n.

Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw.

r understood. Lev. vii. 16. Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn. Crashaw.

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.

To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast. [Obs.] Barrow.

to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] Cranmer.

An optical glass; a telescope. [Obs.] Crashaw.

The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.

Unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless. Jer. Taylor. "Precipitant rebellion." Eikon Basilike.