What is "rashest"

Rash \Rash\, a. [Compar. Rasher (-[~e]r); superl. Rashest.] [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. rask quick, brisk, rash, Icel. r["o]skr vigorous, brave, akin to D. & G. rasch quick, of uncertain origin.]

1. Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] ``Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.''
   --Shak.

2. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent. [Obs.]

   I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash.
   --Shak.

3. 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.

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

5. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Grose.

   Syn: Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary.

   Usage: Rash, Adventurous, Foolhardy. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences.

   Was never known a more adventurous knight.
   --Dryden.

   Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
   --Milton.

   If any yet be so foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honor's got by such a maim.
   --Hudibras.

a. (en-superlative of: rash)