dashing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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