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adjective

Brash adj. Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash adj. Brittle, as wood or vegetables. (Colloq., U. S.)

noun

Brash n.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. (Prov. Eng.)

(Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Broken fragments of ice.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brash" Quotes from Famous Books

... allowed calmly under the influence of frost to crystallize, and most beautiful flowers and spears of ice will be formed, but keep stirring the water all the time with a stick or a pole and nothing will result but an ugly brash of half-frozen stuff. The condition of the exercise of power and energy is that it should proceed from a center of Rest within one. So convinced am I of this, that whenever I find myself hurrying over my work, I pause and say, "Now you are ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... continued to apologize. "You see, we've been overrun with 'rollers' and 'skin-game' men, and lately three expresses have been held up by Lightfoot's gang, and so I've been facing up every suspicious immigrant. I've had to do it—in your case I was too brash—I'll admit that—but come, let's get away from the mob. Come over to my office, I want ...

— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland

... thread as if piercing the flesh of an enemy with a barb; "yes;" she pulled the thread through with a motion as if she enjoyed its rasping against the steel. "Rachel Bond started into this work quite as brash as Harry Glen started into the war. Her enthusiasm died out about as quickly as his courage, when it came to the actual business, and she found there was nobody to admire her industry, or the way she got herself up, except a parcel ...

— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

... wood is never good as a bow. It is too brash; but after the first month of shade, the staves may be put in a hot ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

... Its leaves were mammoth ivory, Its boards were mammoth bone,— Hid in her seaside mountains, Forgotten or unkept, Beneath its mighty covers Her wrath against me slept. And deeply I repented Of brash and boyish crime, Of murder of things lovely Now and in olden time. I cursed my vain ambition, My would-be worldly days, And craved the paths of wonder, Of dewy dawns and fays. I cried, "Our love was boundless, ...

— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay

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