Rasher

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rash \Rash\, a. [Compar. {Rasher} (-[~e]r); superl. {Rashest}.]
     [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk,
     rash, Icel. r["o]skr 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.


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     2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]
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              I scarce have leisure to salute you,
              My matter is so rash.                 --Shak.
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     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.
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     4. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little
        reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
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     5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
        [Prov. Eng.] --Grose.
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     Syn: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty;
          indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless;
          inconsiderate; unwary.
  
     Usage: {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.
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                  Was never known a more adventurous knight.
                                                    --Dryden.
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                  Her rash hand in evil hour
                  Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she
                  eat.                              --Milton.
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                  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rasher \Rash"er\ (r[a^]sh"[~e]r), n. [In sense 1, probably fr.
     rash, a., as being hastily cooked.]
     1. A thin slice of bacon.
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     2. (Zool.) A California rockfish ({Sebastichthys miniatus}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rasher
       n : a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North
           America [syn: {vermillion rockfish}, {Sebastodes miniatus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "rasher":
     bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, coat, coating, collop,
     covering, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, disk, dollop, end, feuille,
     film, flap, foil, fold, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, lamella,
     lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lump, membrane,
     modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, paring, particle, patina,
     peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood,
     safety glass, scoop, scrap, scum, shard, shaving, sheet, shiver,
     shred, skin, slab, slat, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch,
     snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, table, tablet, tatter,
     veneer, wafer