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Rash; hasty; precipitate. [Obs.]

A rash person. [Obs.]

In a rush manner; with precipitation. He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not. L'Estrange.

The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South.

To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time. MacKnight.

The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

To adorn with a sash or scarf. Burke.

A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes. [R.] Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia. Carlyle.

A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot. [Obs.] Nares.

The shell of any marine mollusk.

The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

A sash. [Obs.]

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.

ensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]