'Dashing' definitions:

Definition of 'dashing'

From: WordNet
adjective
Lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant]
adjective
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]

Definition of 'Dashing'

From: GCIDE
  • Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), 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. [1913 Webster]
  • If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. --Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dashing'

From: GCIDE
  • Dashing \Dash"ing\, a. Bold; spirited; showy. [1913 Webster]
  • The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. --T. Campbell. [1913 Webster]