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Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly. Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch. Shak.

nger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

Cowardice. [Obs.]

Cowardly. [Obs.] " A base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia).

To render cowardly. [Obs.] God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits. Bp. Hall.

Cowardice.

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak.

Cowardice. [Obs.] Shak.

See Crackle, n., 3.

Toward death.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

To dissuade from by previous warning. [Obs.]

Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

lace to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

unt. Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.