| brash | Brittle, as wood or vegetables. Origin: Cf. Amer. Bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle. 1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. 2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. 3. <geology> Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. 4. Broken fragments of ice. <medicine> Water brash, a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned. See: Brash brittle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| water brash | <medicine> See Brash. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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