Shak.
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.
4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection;
as, rash words; rash measures.
5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov.
Eng.] Grose.
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.
Was never known a more adventurous knight.
Dryden.
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she
plucked, she eat.
Milton.
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.
Rash (rsh), v. t. To prepare with haste. [Obs.] Foxe.
Rash"er (-r), n. [In sense 1, probably fr. rash, a., as being hastily
cooked.] 1. A thin slice of bacon.