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adjective

Brash adj. Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash adj. Brittle, as wood or vegetables. (Colloq., U. S.)

noun

Brash n.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. (Prov. Eng.)

(Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Broken fragments of ice.

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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"Brash" Quotes from Famous Books

... I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around. So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the lightest invitation, and thus chatting and deriding each other's social arrangements we floated idly townwards and presently came out into the main waterway perhaps a mile wide and flowing rapidly, as streams will on the threshold of the spring, with brash or waste of distant beaches riding down it, and every now and then a broken branch or tree-stem glancing through waves whose crests a fresh wind lifted and sowed in golden showers in the intervening furrows. ...

— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

... four other men were watching. The girls were amazingly skillful, no doubt of that. There was not a man among us who could have handled that gravity platform indoors, not one who would have had the brash temerity to try it. ...

— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings

... that, whilst the breadth of the interior of the building is about 6 feet 3 inches at its eastern end, it is only 4 feet and 9 inches at its western end. Some of these peculiarities are shown in the accompanying ground-plan drawn by Mr. Brash (see woodcut, Fig. 4), in which the line A B represents the whole breadth of the building; A the north, and B the south wall of it. Unfortunately, as far as can be gathered amid the accumulated debris at the western part of the building, the gable at that end is almost destroyed, with ...

— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

... 'aspergillum.' A brash or metallic instrument for the sprinkling of holy water. As to the efficacy of holy water against evil spirits St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) ...

— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

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