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Webster 1913 Edition

Dastard

Das′tard

(dăs′tẽrd)
,
Noun.
[Prob. from Icel.
dæstr
exhausted. breathless, p. p. of
dæsa
to groan, lose one’s breath; cf.
dasask
to become exhausted, and E.
daze
.]
One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
You are all recreants and
dashtards
, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.
Shakespeare

Das′tard

,
Adj.
Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
“Their dastard souls.”
Addison.

Das′tard

,
Verb.
T.
To dastardize.
[R.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dastard

DAS'TARD

,
Noun.
A coward; a poltroon; one who meanly shrinks from danger.

DAS'TARD

,
Adj.
Cowardly; meanly shrinking from danger.
Curse on their dastard souls. Addison.

DAS'TARD

,
Verb.
T.
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit.

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