a. [ Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk. ] Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle. ] Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [ Colloq., U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brash brittle. ] 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Broken fragments of ice. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. --
Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered. F. T. Bullen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Med.) A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crashed p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing. ] [ OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze. ] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market crash of 1929. [ 1913 Webster ]

The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory. It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days.
The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The party was over. Wall street Journal, October 28, 1977. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. crassus coarse. See Crass. ] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to descend steeply and rapidly; -- of aircraft. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter uninvited into a party or other social event.
Syn. -- intrude, barge in, crash, gate-crash, irrupt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket. [ PJC ]

adj. entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Midrashim Midrashoth [ Heb., explanation. ] A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -shoth r -shioth /plu>. [ Heb. pārāshāh. ] A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ n.; pl. of Parashah. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ For arace. ] 1. To pull off or pluck violently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. --
Nettle rash. See Urticaria. --
Rose rash. See Roseola. --
Tooth rash. See Red-gum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Rasher superl. Rashest. ] [ Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk, rash, Icel. röskr 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I scarce have leisure to salute you,
My matter is so rash. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [ Prov. Eng. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary. -- 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Was never known a more adventurous knight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prepare with haste. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ In sense 1, probably fr. rash, a., as being hastily cooked. ] 1. A thin slice of bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rash; hasty; precipitate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rash person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rash manner; with precipitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being rash. [ 1913 Webster ]

We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion; heedlessness; inconsideration; carelessness. See Temerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Thrash, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thrashed p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing. ] [ OE. þreschen, þreshen, to beat, AS. þerscan, þrescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. þreskja, Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. þriskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh. ] 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, v. t. 1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. [ 1913 Webster ]

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. 1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sage thrasher. (Zool.) See under Sage. --
Thrasher whale (Zool.), the common killer of the Atlantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a rag, tatter. ] 1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. B. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A worthless person. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. Markham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trashed p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing. ] 1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [ R. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [ R. ] The Puritan (1607). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a trashy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being trashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Trashier superl. Trashiest. ] Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) See under Brash. [ 1913 Webster ]