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Brash
Brash
(brăsh)
, Adj.
[Cf. Gael.
bras
or G. barsch
harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch
, Sw. & Dan. barsk
.] Hasty in temper; impetuous.
Grose.
Brash
,Adj.
[Cf. Amer.
bresk
, brusk
, fragile, brittle.] Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
[Colloq., U. S.]
Bartlett.
1.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
2.
Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
3.
(Geol.)
Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
Lyell.
4.
Broken fragments of ice.
Kane.
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.