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.
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