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RASH (1),
hasty, headstrong. (Scand.) M.E. rash, rasch, Allit.
Poems, ed. Morris, A. 1166 (or 1167). The final -sch
stands for -sk, as usual.—Dan. and Swed. rask, brisk, quick,
rash; Icel. röskr, vigorous. + Du. rasch, quick. + G. rasch, quick,
vigorous, rash. Cf. Skt. ricch, to go, to attack.
β. An
adjectival form, from ✔AR,
to raise, drive; cf. Skt. ri, to rise, raise, attack; Gk.
ὄρ-νυμι, I
excite. The orig. sense is excitable, prompt to attack.
Der. rash-ly, -ness; perhaps rash-er.
RASH (2),
a slight eruption on the body. (F.,—L.) In Johnson's
Dict.—O.F. rasche, 'a scauld, or a running scurfe, or sore; a Languedoc
word,' Cot.; also spelt rasque. F. rache, an eruption on the head,
scurf (Littré). Cf. Prov. rasca, the itch (Littré). So
called from the wish to scratch it; cf. Prov. rascar, Span. rascar, to scratch,
scrape, formed from a Low Lat. type rasicare*, to scratch, due to Lat. rasum,
supine of radere, to scrape. See Rascal,
Rase. RASH
(3), to pull, or tear
violently. (F.,—L.) 'Rash, to snatch or seize, to
tear or rend;' Halliwell. 'The second he took in his arms, and rashed
him out of the saddle;' Arthur of Little Britain, ed. 1814, p. 83
(R.) 'And shields did share, and mailes did rash, and helms
did hew;' Spenser, F. Q. iv. 2. 17. 'Rashing off helmes, and
riving plates asonder;' id. v. 3. 8. M.E. aracen, afterwards
shortened to racen. 'The children from hire arm they gan arace,'
i.e. tore away; Chaucer, C. T. 8979. 'Hur heere of can she race'
= she tore off her hair (Halliwell, s.v. race). [The change
from the sound of final -s (voiceless) to -sh is regular, as in flourish
from the stem fleuriss-, &c.]—O.F. esracer, mod. F. arracher,
'to root up, to pull away by violence,' Cot.—Lat. exradicare = eradicare,
to root up; see Eradicate,
Radix. [†] ADDENDA RASH
(3). In the Anglo-French Bestiary by Philip de Thaun, l. 371, we
read of an animal who is able 'detrencher granz arbres e racher,' which
Mr. Wright explains by to 'cut down and fell great trees.' It
is rather to 'root up,' from Lat. radicare, used with the sense of eradicare.
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