Noun

In the succeeding generation rulers will be appointed who have lost the guardian power of testing the metal of your different races, which, like Hesiod's, are of gold and silver and brass and iron.

By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly.

Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day.

The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle .

They have neither gold nor silver of their own, wine nor oyl, or scarce any corn growing in those United Provinces, little or no wood, tin, lead, iron, silk, wooll, any stuff almost, or mettle ; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that brag of their mines, fertile England, cannot compare with them.

Noun

sometimes dash'' is also used colloquially to refer to a ''hyphen'' or ''minus sign .

Add a dash of vinegar

Aren't we full of dash this morning?

The dash clock said 2:38 when.

The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash " to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.

Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law

The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.

I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.

Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.

Who the dash' is this person whom none of us know? and what the ' dash does he do here?

I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.