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brash

brash is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  2. 2.Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
  3. 3.(Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.
  4. 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 Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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