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  • English Word Dash Definition 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.
  • English Word Dash Definition 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.
  • English Word Dash Definition The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
  • English Word Dash Definition A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
  • English Word Dashboard Definition A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
  • English Word Dashboard Definition The float of a paddle wheel.
  • English Word Dashboard Definition A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
  • English Word Dashed Definition of Dash
  • English Word Dasher Definition That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
  • English Word Dasher Definition A dashboard or splashboard.
  • English Word Dasher Definition One who makes an ostentatious parade.
  • English Word Dashing Definition of Dash
  • English Word Dashing Definition Bold; spirited; showy.
  • English Word Dashingly Definition Conspicuously; showily.
  • English Word Dashism Definition The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
  • English Word Dashpot Definition A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
  • English Word Dashy Definition Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
  • English Word Dastard Definition One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
  • English Word Dastard Definition Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
  • English Word Dastard Definition To dastardize.
  • English Word Dastardize Definition To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
  • English Word Dastardized Definition of Dastardize
  • English Word Dastardizing Definition of Dastardize
  • English Word Dastardliness Definition The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
  • English Word Dastardly Definition Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
  • English Word Dastardness Definition Dastardliness.
  • English Word Dastardy Definition Base timidity; cowardliness.
  • English Word Daswe Definition See Dasewe
  • English Word Dasymeter Definition An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.
  • English Word Dasypaedal Definition Dasypaedic.