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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.

A thin slice of bacon.

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.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

pl. of Parashah.

An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose.

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.