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Water brash

Brash \Brash\, n. [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.) 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.

Water brash

Water brash \Wa"ter brash`\ (Med.) See under Brash.