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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Brash

/(brăsh)/ · IPA /bɹæʃ/
01 a. Hasty in temper; impetuous.
  1. 1.
    Hasty in temper; impetuous.
02 a. Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
  1. 1.
    Brittle, as wood or vegetables.[Colloq., U. S.]
03 n. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  1. 1.
    A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  2. 2.
    Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.[Prov. Eng.]
  3. 3.
    Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.(Geol.)
  4. 4.
    Broken fragments of ice.
Phrases & compounds
Water brash — 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 — a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.