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- verb Present participle of
rash .
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Examples
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Another friend remembered that Ray himself often pronounced ephemeral as e-fem-EAR-e-al and that his friends used to “give him a rashing over that.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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E spent the first four years of her life sniffling and sneezing and rashing and itching.
Red State Notes Becca 2006
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E spent the first four years of her life sniffling and sneezing and rashing and itching.
Archive 2006-04-01 Becca 2006
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Sir Launcelot, leave your noise and your rashing, and I shall set open this door, and then may ye do with me what it liketh you.
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Winthrop, young and ardent, with the tide of great thoughts rashing in upon his princely heart, died in the flush of hope with the fresh enthusiasm of poetry and undimmed patriotism shining in his eyes, and we laid our soldier to sleep under the violets.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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There came an horseman shriking sore and rashing wildly home, --
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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And deeply in the charger's flanks, the rashing rowel tore; --
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Free rein and rashing spur, and went as if some devil drave;
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He rushed upon Conattee in his desperation, but the savage was too quick for him; leaping behind a tree, he avoided the rashing stroke with which the white tusks threatened him, and by this time was enabled to fit a second arrow
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. First Series 1845
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And then they hurtled together like two wild bulls, rashing and lashing with their swords and shields, so that sometimes they fell, as it were, headlong.
The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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