Note: A cataract of an engine is sometimes called a dashpot.
DASHY
Dash"y, a. Etym: [From Dash.]
Defn: Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]
DASTARD Das"tard, n. Etym: [Prob. from Icel. dæstr exhausted. breathless, p. p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze.]
Defn: 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.
DASTARD
Das"tard, a.
Defn: Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. "Their dastard souls." Addison.
DASTARD
Das"tard, v. t.
Defn: To dastardize. [R.] Dryden.
DASTARDIZE
Das"tard*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dastardized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dastardizing.]