2. A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his
hopes received a dash.
3. A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial
overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a
dash of purple.
Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
--Addison.
4. A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick
stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at
the enemy; a dash of rain.
She takes upon her bravely at first dash. --Shak.
5. Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
6. A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make
or cut a great dash. [Low]
7. (Punctuation) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing,
denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a
sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long
or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic
turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead
of marks or parenthesis. --John Wilson.
8. (Mus.)
(a) The sign of staccato, a small mark [?] denoting that
the note over which it is placed is to be performed in
a short, distinct manner.
(b) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass,
as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
9. (Racing) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a
race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial
constitutes the race.
If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of
the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon.
2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to
crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. --Ps. ii. 9.
A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak.
To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton.
3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to
depress. --South.
Dash the proud games?er in his gilded car. --Pope.
4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix,
reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an
inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter;
to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to
dash paint upon a picture.
I take care to dash the character with such
particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured
applications. --Addison.
The very source and fount of day Is dashed with
wandering isles of night. --Tennyson.
5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute
rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash
off a review or sermon.
6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with
out; as, to dash out a word.
[He] dashed through thick and thin. --Dryden.
On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the
rough cascade all dashing fall. --Thomson.