1. (a.) Hasty in temper; impetuous.

2. (a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

3. (n.) A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

4. (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

5. (n.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

6. (n.) Broken fragments of ice.

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