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  1. adjective Characterized by or resulting from ill-considered haste or boldness. See Synonyms at reckless.
  2. adjective Archaic Quick in producing a strong or marked effect.
  3. noun A skin eruption.
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  1. Middle English rasch, active, unrestrained, perhaps from Old English -raesc (in līgræsc, lightning) or from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German rasch, fast.
  2. Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus, past participle of rādere; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English rash, rasch, hasty, headstrong; not found in Anglo-Saxon except in the rare verb ræscan, move quickly (of light), quiver, glitter, ræscettan, crackle, sparkle (=Old High German raskezzan, sparkle); =D. rasch, quick, swift, =Middle Low German rasch =Old High German rasc, also rosch, Middle High German rasch, also resch, risch, German rasch, quick, swift, =Danish Swedish rask, brisk, quick, rash, =Icelandic röskr, strong, vigorous (later röskir, quick); with adjective formative -sk (-sh), from the root of Anglo-Saxon ræde, quick (later rædnes, quickness), =Middle Dutch rade, raede, Dutch rad =Middle Low German rat (rad-), quick (see rath), and of OFries. reth, rad =Middle Dutch, Dutch rad =Middle Low German rat, Low German rad =Old High German rad, Middle High German rat, German rad, wheel, =Irish roth =L. rota =Lithuanian ratas, wheel, =Sanskrit ratha, a wagon, chariot, warchariot. Cf. rash.
  2. from rash, a. Cf. Anglo-Saxon ræscan =G. raschen =Swedish raska, move quickly, =Danish raske, reflexive, rise; from the adjective
  3. Prob. from Swedish Danish rask, quick, =Icel, röskr, strong, vigorous; cf. Icelandic röskvask, reflexive, ripen (said of persons): see rash.
  4. By apheresis from arash, variant of arace, from Middle English aracen, arasen, also arachen, from Anglo-French aracer, Old French aracier, arachier, mixed with erachier, esrachier, French arracher, uproot, tear up, eradicate: see arace and eradicate, and cf. race. But the form and sense seem to be due in part to the verb rash. Hence perhaps rasher.
  5. (a) =D. Low German ras =G. rasch, woolen cloth, =Danish rask, serge, =Swedish rask, a kind of cloth; prob. from OF, ras, a woolen stuff, French ras, short-nap cloth, =Spanish Italian raso, a smooth cloth material; cf. Spanish diminutive rasilla, serge; perhaps from Latin rasus, past participle of radere, scrape, rub: see rase, (b) Cf. Italian rascia, serge, ‘rash,’ said by Muratori to be from Rascia, a region in Bosnia where this stuff is said to have originated, (c) Cf. also arras, tapestry, =Italian arazzo =Middle High German arraz, arras (Middle Latin arrasium, arracium), also, by apheresis, Italian razzo =Portuguese raz, arras, from French Arras, also Aras, a town in northern France where arras was first made. Some confusion of these forms seems to have occurred.
  6. from Old French rasche, also rasque, rash, scurf, French rache, an eruption on the head, scurf, =Provencal rasca, itch; from Provencal rascar =Spanish Portuguese rascar, scratch, rasgar, tear, rend, scrape, etc., from Late Latin *rasicare, scratch (cf. Latin rasitare, shave often), freq. of Latin radere, past participle rasus, scrape, shave: see rase, raze, and cf. rascal.
  7. Imitative.
 

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