Dash, subst. 1) mark of infamy: “some loathsome d. the herald will contrive, to cipher me how fondly I did dote,” Lucr. 206. “had I not the d. of my former life in me,” Wint. V, 2, 122.
2) at first d. == from the first: “she takes upon her bravely at first d.” H6A I, 2, 71.

