BRASH
Brash, a. Etym: [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
Defn: Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.
BRASH
Brash, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
BRASHY
Brash"y, a.
1. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.