Brash (?), a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.]
Hasty in temper; impetuous.
Grose.
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Brash, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
[Colloq., U. S.]
Bartlett.
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Brash, n. [See Brash brittle.]
1.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
2.
Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
3. Geol.
Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
Lyell.
4.
Broken fragments of ice.
Kane.
Water brash Med., 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 Med., a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.
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