Brash \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |