rashness (rashnes)

1. The character of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste; headstrong precipitation in decision or action; temerity; unwarranted boldne . Such bold a everations as in him [the apostle Paul] were admirable should in your mouths but argue rashne . Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., vi. And though he stumbles in a full career, Yet rashne is a better fault than fear. Dryden , Tyrannic Love, Prol., 1. 21. 2. A rash act; a reckle or foolhardy deed. Why not set forth, if I should do This rashne , that which might ensue With this old soul in organs new? Tennyson, Two Voices. =Syn. 1. Rashne , Temerity. Rashne has the vigor of the Anglo-Saxon, temerity the selectne and dignity of the Latin. Temerity implies personal danger, physical or other: as, the temerity of undertaking to contradict Samuel Johnson; temerity in going upon thin ice. Rashne is broader in this respect. Rashne goes by the feelings without the judgment; temerity rather disregards the judg ment. Temerity refers rather to the disposition, rashne to the conduct. See adventurous. For rashne is not courage. Rashne flings itself into danger without consideration or foresight. But courage counts the cost, and does not make any display of itself. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 336. As the note of warlike preparation reached them [the Moors] in their fastne es, they felt their temerity in thus bringing the whole weight of the Castilian monarchy on Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. their heads. rasint, n. An obsolete form of resin . rasing (rā'zing), n. [Verbal n. of rasel , v .] In ship- building , the act of marking by the edges of molds any figure upon timber, etc., with a rasing-knife, or with the points of compa es. rasing-iron (rā'zing-ī"ėrn), n . A kind of calking-iron for clearing the pitch and oakum out of a ve el's seams, preparatory to recal king. rasing-knife (rā'zing-nif), п. A small edged tool fixed in a handle, and hooked at its point, used for making particular marks on timber, lead, tin, etc. rasion (razhon), n. [ L.rasio ( n- ), a scraping, shaving, -ial.] Given to scratching the ground for food, as poultry; belonging to the Rasores , especially in the second sense of that word; gallinaceous. raspl (råsp), v . [ raspen , rospen , rasper , F. ráper , scrape, grate, rasp, = Sp. Pg . raspar = It. raspare , scrape, rasp, raspare , scrape, rake, raspen , scrape together (cf. D. MLG. raspen = MHG. freq. raspelen , G. raspeln , rasp, = Dan. raspe = Sw.rasp a , rasp, in part from the noun); cf. OHG. hrespan , MHG. respen , rake together, pluck; Icel. risp a , scratch (› Sc. risp ); prob. from the root of OHG. * raff on , MHG. G. raffen, etc., seize: see rap2 . Cf. raspl , n. Hence ult. (prob.) rapier .] 1. trans . 1. To abrade by rubbing or grating with a coarsely rough instrument; grate, or grate away, with a rasp or something comparable to it. Al that thise first vii [years of plenty] maken, Sulen this othere vii [years of famine] rospen & raken. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2132. who insists that the shoe must fit him because it fitted his father and grandfather, and that, if his foot will not enter, he will pare and rasp it. That fellow Landor , Imaginary Conversations, Solon and Pis i stratus. When the cane [in sugar-making) has been rasped to shreds [by a rasper], it is reduced to pulp by disintegrating apparatus. Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., II. 1879. 2. Figuratively, to affect or perform harshly, as if by the use of a rasp; grate upon; utter with a rough and jarring effect: as, to rasp one's feelings; to rasp out a refusal. Through all the weird September-eves I heard the harsh, reiterant katydids Rasp the mysterious silence. J. G. Holland , Kathrina, i. Grating songs a listening crowd endures, Rasped from the throats of bellowing amateurs. O. W. Holmes, An After-Dinner Poem. II. in trans. To rub against something gratingly; produce a rasping effect: as, the ve el rasped against the quay: literally or figuratively. Rasped harshly against his dainty nature. Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, i. 5. G. raspe, = raspl (rasp), n. [= D. Dan. Sw.rasp G. rappe ) (= It. rasp a ), a rasp, grater, raspberry and rasps for makers of gun-stocks and saddletrees are cut with teeth arrayed in circular lines or in crescent form: sometimes used figuratively. The horses from the country were a goodly sight to see, with the rasp of winter bristles rising through and among the soft summer-coat. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, lxix. 2. A machine or large instrument for use in rasping; a rasper. The juice [of beet-roots] from the rasp and the pre is brought into a boiler and heated by steam. Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 210. 3. The radula or odontophore of a mollusk; the lingual ribbon. See cut under radula.-4. A rasping surface. (at) The steel of a tinder-box. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The rough surface of the tongue of some animals. He dismounted when he came to the cattle, and walked among them, stroking their soft flanks, and feeling in the palm of his hand the rasp of their tongues. The Century , XXXV. 947. rasp2 (råsp), n. [Formerly also respe , also ras pis , raspise , raspice , respa (with occasional pl. raspi es ), appar. orig. pl., prop. raspes (the berries), used as sing. (the bush, and later transferred to a single berry?), prob. rasp1 , п., or abbr. of raspberry , rasp1 + berryl , with ref. to its rough outside; cf. It. raspo , a raspberry (Florio): see rasp1 .] The fruit of the common (European) raspberry. See raspberry . [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] The soyle of this playne bryngeth foorth ferne and bramble bu hes bearynge blacke berries or wylde raspes , which two are tokens of coulde regions. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 172). For kindes of fruites, they haue. rasps , strawberies, and hurtilberies. Hakluyt's Voyages , L. 477. Rosey had done eating up her pine-apple, artle ly confe ing. that she preferred it to the rasps and hinny blobs in her grandmamma's garden. Thackeray , New comes, xxiii.