#862. [Excess of fear.] Cowardice. -- N. cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness &c. adj.; timidity, effeminacy.
poltroonery, baseness; dastardness[obs], dastardy[obs]; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear &c. 860; white feather, faint heart; cold feet * [U. S.], yellow streak*.
coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill cock; coistril[obs], milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget[obs], one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.
alarmist, terrorist|!, pessimist; runagate &c. (fugitive) 623.
V. quail &c. (fear) 860; be cowardly &c. adj., be a coward &c. n.; funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away &c. (avoid) 623; show, the white feather.
Adj. coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.
weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c. 605; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted[obs], lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white- livered[obs], lily-livered, milk-livered[obs]; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say " bo " to a goose.
dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like.
" in face a lion but in heart a deer".
unmanned; frightened &c. 860.
Int. sauve qui peut[Fr]! [French: every man for himself]; devil take the hindmost!
Phr. ante tubam trepidat[Lat], one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Lat][Vergil].