to pull off or pluck violently.-to slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.-a fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.-an inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.-sudden in action; quick; hasty.-requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.-esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.-uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.-so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.-to prepare with haste.