rash6 (rash)

An obsolete or dialectal form of rush1. They bigg it a bower on yon burn brae, And theek it it o'er wi' rashes . Be y Bell and Mary Gray, in Aitken's Scottish Song, p. 20. rasher1 (rash'èr), n. [( a ) Carbon at a , a carbon ada, meat broiled vpon the coles, a rasher . Florio , 1598. This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money. Shak ., M. of V., iii. 5. 28. He that eats nothing but a red herring a-day shall ne'er be broiled for the devil's rasher . Beau . and Fl ., Love's Cure, ii. 1. He had done justice to a copious breakfast of fried eggs and broiled rashers . Thackeray , Pen dennis, I. 313. rasher2 (rash'èr), n. [Perhaps rascacio = Pg. rascacio , also rascas , names of the European Scorpæna scrofa and related fishes.] A scorpænoid fish of California, Sebastichthys or Sebastodes mini at us , of a red color variously marked. It is one of a large group of rock-fish or rock-cod, others of which no doubt have the IMG:content-1652.png:[blocks in formation] 4966 Raskolnik (ras-kol'nik), n. [Ru .] In Ru ia, a schismatic; a di enter. There are many sects of Raskolniks, most of them differing from the Orthodox Church by even greater conservatism in ritual, etc. Some sects retain the office of priest, while others are Presbyterian or Independent in polity; others, again, are of wildly fanatical and antinomian character. rasoo (ra-sö'), n. [E. Ind.] A flying-squirrel of India, a species of Pteromys. Rasores (rā-šō'rēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of L. ras or, a scraper (applied to a fiddler), IMG:content-1653.jpg:[blocks in formation] What rashlings doth delight, that sober men despise. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas. rashly (rash'li), adv. In a rash manner; hastily; with precipitation; inconsiderately; presumptuously; at a venture.