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To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces. [Obs.] P. Plowman. "I'll pash him o'er the face." Shak.

Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.

A dash of water; a splash.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

To push; to dash; to throw. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] A cat . . . possed them [the rats] about. Piers Plowman.

To dash or fall headlong. [R.] So many fathom down precipitating. Shak.

To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller.

Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden.

To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke.…

ttle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. Burke.

Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing. Four spanking grays ready harnessed. G. Colman, the Younger.

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

lashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits on the rock. Shak.

Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.

See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).