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4 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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