• (a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. • (v. t.) To dastardize. • (n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/dastard/
Das'tard noun [ Prob. from Icelandic dæstr exhausted. breathless, past participle of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; confer dasask to become exhausted, and English daze .] One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. « You are all recreants and... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/7