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dastard
(encz) | dastard,sketa Jiri Syrovy |
Dastard
(gcide) | Dastard \Das"tard\, v. t.
To dastardize. [R.] --Dryden.
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Dastard
(gcide) | Dastard \Das"tard\ (d[a^]s"t[~e]rd), n. [Prob. from Icel.
d[ae]str exhausted. breathless, p. p. of d[ae]sa 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.
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You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to
live in slavery to the nobility. --Shak.
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Dastard
(gcide) | Dastard \Das"tard\, a.
Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. "Their
dastard souls." --Addison.
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dastard
(wn) | dastard
adj 1: despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack
by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn:
dastard(a), dastardly]
n 1: a despicable coward |
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dastard
(encz) | dastard,sketa Jiri Syrovy |
dastardliness
(encz) | dastardliness,zbabělost n: Zdeněk Brož |
dastardly
(encz) | dastardly,zbabělý Jiri Syrovy |
dastard plover
(gcide) | Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS.
hle['a]pewince; hle['a]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word
akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering;
cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See Leap, and Wink.]
(Zool.)
A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus
cristatus}, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad
wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards,
downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish
bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London
market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit,
dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the
Squatarola cinerea.
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Dastardize
(gcide) | Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dastardized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing.]
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to
dastardize my courage. --Dryden.
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Dastardized
(gcide) | Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dastardized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing.]
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to
dastardize my courage. --Dryden.
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Dastardizing
(gcide) | Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dastardized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing.]
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to
dastardize my courage. --Dryden.
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Dastardliness
(gcide) | Dastardliness \Das"tard*li*ness\, n.
The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
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Dastardly
(gcide) | Dastardly \Das"tard*ly\, a.
Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
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Dastardness
(gcide) | Dastardness \Das"tard*ness\, n.
Dastardliness.
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Dastardy
(gcide) | Dastardy \Das"tard*y\, n.
Base timidity; cowardliness.
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dastard
(wn) | dastard
adj 1: despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack
by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn:
dastard(a), dastardly]
n 1: a despicable coward |
dastardliness
(wn) | dastardliness
n 1: despicable cowardice |
dastardly
(wn) | dastardly
adj 1: despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack
by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn:
dastard(a), dastardly] |
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