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One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.

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  1. n. One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
  2. a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
  3. v. t. To dastardize.
  4. adj. despicably cowardly
  5. n. a despicable coward
  6. 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. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. "Their dastard souls." Addison. To dastardize. [R.] Dryden.
  7. One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; apoltroon.You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slaveryto the nobility. Shak.
  8. n. a despicable coward s. despicably cowardly