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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Dastard

/(dăs"tẽrd)/ · Das·tard · IPA /ˈdæstɚd/
01 n. One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
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    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.
02 a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
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    Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
03 v. t. To dastardize.
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    To dastardize.[R.]