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nce or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon.

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

A tropical aroid (of the genus Caladium, syn. Colocasia) having an edible farinaceous root. It is related to the taro and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the S…

That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

blustering parade or show. [R. & Colloq.] He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.

A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]

s. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

,n.A kind of neckcloth. [Obs.] A treatise against the cravat and berdash. Steele.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

aler in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.

To dash between or among; to intersperse. Cowper.

y, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

Uproar. Jamieson.