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[Middle English rasch, active, unrestrained, perhaps from Old English -raesc (in līgræsc, lightning), or from Middle Dutch, or Middle Low German rasch, fast.]
[Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin* rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus past participle of rādere.]
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