Brash (&?;), a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G.
barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan.
barsk.] Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.
Brash, a. [Cf. Amer. bresk,
brusk, fragile, brittle.] Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
[Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.
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.
