Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.
- noun An outbreak of many instances within a brief period.
- adjective Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness. synonym: reckless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- So ripe or dry as to break or fall readily, as corn from dry straw in handling.
- noun Corn in the straw, so dry as to fall out with handling.
- Quick, brisk, hot; causing too quick a result: as, a rash fire.
- noun A more or less extensive eruption on the skin.
- noun A crisp rustle; a crackle.
- To put together hurriedly; prepare with haste.
- To publish imprudently; blab.
- To cook too rapidly; burn from haste: as, the beef has been rashed in the roasting.
- Quick; sudden; hasty.
- Hasty in council or action; precipitate; headstrong; impetuous; venturesome: as, a rash statesman or minister; a rash commander.
- Marked by or manifesting inconsiderate haste in speech or action; resulting from temerity or recklessness: as, rash words; rash measures.
- Requiring haste; urgent.
- Synonyms and Enterprising, Foolhardy, etc. (see
adventurous ), precipitate, hasty, headlong, inconsiderate, careless, heedless. See list underreckless . - noun A kind of inferior manufacture of silk or of silk and stuff.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
rush . - To tear or slash violently; lacerate; rend; hack; hew; slice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To prepare with haste.
- adjective obsolete Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
- adjective obsolete Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
- adjective 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. - adjective Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection
- adjective Prov. Eng. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
- noun obsolete An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
- noun (Med.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
- noun See in the Vocabulary.
- noun See
Urticaria . - noun See
Roseola . - noun See
Red-gum . - transitive verb obsolete To pull off or pluck violently.
- transitive verb obsolete To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
hasty , notcareful orconsidered . - noun medicine An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
- noun A
surge inproblems ; aspate ,string ortrend - verb obsolete To
prepare withhaste .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
- noun a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
- noun any red eruption of the skin
- adjective imprudently incurring risk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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There have been a rash of sightings and I use the term rash here as a caution to all people to not engage in unprotected sex with workers of the sex industry.
Gawker 2009
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But he is less supportive of what he described as a rash decision to move one of Gary's casinos to fund it.
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Severe diaper rash is claiming that he converted Horowitz?
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Severe diaper rash is claiming that he converted Horowitz?
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The latest rash is people thinking the Twilight cast is Tweeting the happenings on the New Moon set on Twitter.
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Right Wing Dystopia you have to kind excuse diaper-rash-boy see his mother didnt come home and change his diapers for a week now and well that rash is just bugging it bad.
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The inner tart, sequin rash, and my first tiff with James on Strictly Come Dancing
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Painful skin rash, called dermatitis herpetiformis
About Celiac Disease 2010
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I squeezed it between that and buying shoes for Pumpkinpie and buying toothpaste and vitamins and returning that recalled Mother's Day tote bag that Indigo gave me (give your mom the gift of a nasty skin rash!).
Friends kittenpie 2008
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I squeezed it between that and buying shoes for Pumpkinpie and buying toothpaste and vitamins and returning that recalled Mother's Day tote bag that Indigo gave me (give your mom the gift of a nasty skin rash!).
Archive 2008-05-01 kittenpie 2008
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