the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Rash
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To prepare with haste.
(2):
(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
(3):
(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
(4):
(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
(5):
(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
(6):
(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
(7):
(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
(8):
(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(9):
(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(10):
(superl.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rash'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rash.html. 1828.
