dash | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Dash
·noun Energy in style or action; animation; spirit. II. Dash ·noun Violent striking together of two...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
dash
The present with which bargains are sealed on the coast of Africa. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
churn-dash
the staff belonging to a churn. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
to cut a dash
In modern colloquial speech, to make a great show; to make a figure.--Johnson. A fashionable or gail...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.