To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or
no elevation.

An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate;
resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation
and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman
or commander.

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little
reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

To prepare with haste.