Definition of coward

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Coward (a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity..

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Milk-livered :: Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Cowardice :: Cowardice (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Dastardy :: Dastardy (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness.
Cowardize :: Cowardize (v. t. ) To render cowardl.
Flee :: Flee (v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive..
Cowish :: Cowish (v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
-art :: -art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard..
Cowardly :: Cowardly (a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity..
Sneaking :: Sneaking (a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
Poor-spirited :: Poor-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.
Craven :: Craven (n.) A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n..
Fainthearted :: Fainthearted (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward..
Coward :: Coward (a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Pusillanimous :: Pusillanimous (a.) Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince..
Cowardly :: Cowardly (a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Discourage :: Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Kaynard :: Kaynard (n.) A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal.
Cowhearted :: Cowhearted (a.) Cowardly.
Poltroon :: Poltroon (n.) An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.
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