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

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

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

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

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

ract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

ul; to make wet and limp; to moisten. The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray. Sir W. Scott.

ck and thin. Dryden. On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall. Thomson.

The act of dashing or striking against. Sir T. Browne.

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

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

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

A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

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

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.