Part 2761

<blockquote> A <b>dashingly</b> dressed gentleman. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dashism</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dash"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.</def> <mark>[R. & Colloq.]</mark>

<blockquote>He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . <b>dashism</b> can be universally allowed. <i>V. Knox.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dashpot</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dash"pot`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.</def>

<-- letters refer to illustration --> <note>&hand; It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston (<it>a</it>), attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters a space (as below the openings, <it>b</it>) from which the air or liquid can escape but slowly (as through cock <it>c</it>), when its fall is gradually checked.</note>

<note>A cataract of an engine is sometimes called a <i>dashpot</i>.</note>

<h1>Dashy</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dash"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Dash</er>.]</ety> <def>Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Dastard</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. from Icel. <ets>d\'91str</ets> exhausted. breathless, p. p. of <ets>d\'91sa</ets> to groan, lose one's breath; cf. <ets>dasask</ets> to become exhausted, and E. <ets>daze</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.</def>

<blockquote>You are all recreants and <b>dashtards</b>, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dastard</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.</def> "Their <i>dastard</i> souls."

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Dastard</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To dastardize.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Dastardize</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dastardized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dastardizing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; <as>as, to <ex>dastardize</ex> my courage</as>.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Dastardliness</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard*li*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.</def>

<h1>Dastardly</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Meanly timid; cowardly; base; <as>as, a <ex>dastardly</ex> outrage</as>.</def>

<h1>Dastardness</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Das"tard*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Dastardliness.</def>