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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DASH'ING, ppr.
1. Driving and striking against; striking suddenly or violently; breaking or scattering by collision; infusing; mixing; confounding; blotting out; rushing.
2. a. Rushing; driving; blustering; as a dashing fellow.
3. a. Precipitate; rushing carelessly on.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant]
2: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1697 1. marked by vigorous action ; spirited <a dashing young horse> 2. marked by smartness especially in dress and manners • dashingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 spirited, lively. 2 showy. Derivatives: dashingly adv. dashingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dash Dash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.] 1. To throw with violence 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. 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. --Ps. ii. 9. A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak. To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton. 3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. Dash the proud games?er in his gilded car. --Pope. 4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. --Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson. 5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon. 6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dashing Dash"ing, a. Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. --T. Campbell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A dashing person or thing is very stylish and attractive. (OLD-FASHIONED) He was the very model of the dashing RAF pilot... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Rushing, roaring, precipitate, impetuous, headlong. 2. Spirited, showy, brilliant, gay.

Moby Thesaurus

agile, alert, animate, animated, brave, bravura, braw, breakneck, bright, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, daring, double-quick, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, dynamic, eagle-winged, elegant, energetic, exclusive, exhibitionistic, expeditious, express, exquisite, fashionable, fast, flamboyant, flashing, flashy, flaunting, fleet, flying, frilly, frothy, gallant, galloping, gay, genteel, glittering, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, impetuous, jaunty, jazzy, keen, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nimble, nimble-footed, nobby, ostentatious, peppy, posh, precipitate, pretentious, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rakish, rapid, recherche, reckless, ritzy, rousing, running, sharp, showy, sleek, smart, smug, snappy, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spanking, speedy, spiffy, spirited, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spruce, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, vigorous, vivacious, well-dressed, well-groomed, winged, with-it