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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dastard \Das"tard\ (d[a^]s"t[~e]rd), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dastard \Das"tard\, adjective Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. ''Their dastard souls.'' --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dastard \Das"tard\, verb (used with an object) To dastardize. [R.] --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dastard
adjective: treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn: {dastard(a)}, {dastardly}]
noun: a malicious coward
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