3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. [Low]
DASHING
Dash"ing, a.
Defn: Bold; spirited; showy.
The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T.
Campbell.
DASHINGLY
Dash"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.]
A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.
DASHISM
Dash"ism, n.
Defn: The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or
show. [R. & Colloq.]
He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be
universally allowed. V. Knox.
DASHPOT
Dash"pot`, n. (Mach.)
Defn: A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston (a), attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters a space (as below the openings, b) from which the air or liquid can escape but slowly (as through cock c), when its fall is gradually checked.