1. (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.

2. (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

3. (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

4. (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

5. (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

6. (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

7. (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.

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. (v. t.) To prepare with haste.