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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rash \Rash\, noun [Cf. F. ras short-nap cloth, It. & Sp. raso satin (cf. {Rase}); or cf. It. rascia serge, G. rasch, probably fr. Arras in France (cf. {Arras}).] An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obs.] --Donne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rash \Rash\, adjective [Compar. {Rasher} (-[~e]r); superl. {Rashest}.] [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk, rash, Icel. r["o]skr vigorous, brave, akin to D. & G. rasch quick, of uncertain origin.]
1. Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] ''Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.'' --Shak.
2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]
I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash. --Shak.
3. Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose.
Syn: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary.
Usage: {Rash}, {Adventurous}, {Foolhardy}. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences.
Was never known a more adventurous knight. --Dryden.
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. --Milton.
If any yet be so foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honor's got by such a maim. --Hudibras.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rash \Rash\ (r[a^]sh), verb (used with an object) [For arace.]
1. To pull off or pluck violently. [Obs.]
2. To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. [Obs.]
Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rash \Rash\, noun [OF. rasche an eruption, scurf, F. rache; fr. (assumed) LL. rasicare to scratch, fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, scratch, shave. See {Rase}, and cf. {Rascal}.] (Med.) 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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rash \Rash\ (r[a^]sh), verb (used with an object) To prepare with haste. [Obs.] --Foxe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rash
adjective
1: imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
2: marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center" [syn: {foolhardy}, {reckless}]
noun
1: any red eruption of the skin [syn: {roseola}, {efflorescence}, {skin rash}]
2: a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" [syn: {blizzard}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "rash": abrupt, abscess, adventuresome, adventurous, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, audacious, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bold, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, breaking out, breakneck, breathless, cachexia, cachexy, careless, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, daredevil, daring, dashing, deluge, dermatitis, devil-may-care, diaper rash, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, drug rash, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eczema, edema, efflorescence, emaciation, epidemic, eruption, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flood, flux, foolhardy, foolish, growth, hasty, headlong, heat rash, heedless, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hives, hotheaded, hubristic, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, ill-advised, ill-considered, impatient, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, incogitant, inconsiderate, indigestion, indiscreet, inflammation, injudicious, insolent, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lots, low blood pressure, lumbago, madcap, marasmus, multitude, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nettle rash, numbers, outbreak, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overhasty, oversure, overweening, pain, panting, papular rash, paralysis, plague, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prickly heat, profusion, pruritus, quantity, quick, quixotic, reckless, redness, rheum, rupia, sclerosis, seizure, series, shock, silly, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spate, succession, sudden, tabes, tachycardia, temerarious, thoughtless, tumor, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, unthinking, unwary, unwise, upset stomach, urticaria, vaccine rash, venturesome, venturous, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wave, wild
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RASH, adjective Insensible to the value of our advice.
"Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash." "Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish
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