Das"tard (?), n. [Prob. from Icel. daestr exhausted. breathless, p. p. of daesa 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.
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Das"tard, a.
Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
"Their
dastard souls."
Addison.
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Das"tard, v. t.
To dastardize.
[R.]
Dryden.
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