rasher

[From rash (1), a., from the rashne or haste with which it is cooked.] 1. A thin slice of bacon for frying or broiling. "Rashers of sing'd bacon on the coals." Dryden: Cock and Fox. 2. Zool.: Sebastichthys mini at us , a species of rock fish. *răsh-full, a . [Eng. rash; -full .] Rash, hasty. "You with hastie doo me, and rash full sentence straight." Turbervile: Dispraise of Women. *răsh-ling, s . [English rash (1), a.; -ling.] One who acts hastily or rashly; a rash person. "What rashlings doth delight, that sober men despise." Sylvester: Du Bartas, p. 647. răsh-lỹ, adv . [Eng. rash (1), a.; -ly .] In a rash manner; with rashne or precipitation; hastily, reckle ly, foolhardily. "On certain dangers we too rashly run." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xii. 76.