Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dastard"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dastard \Das"tard\, 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.
You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to
live in slavery to the nobility. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dastard \Das"tard\, a.
Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. ``Their
dastard souls.'' --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dastard \Das"tard\, v. t.
To dastardize. [R.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dastard
adj : treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack
by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn: {dastard(a)},
{dastardly}]
n : a malicious coward
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