English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bastard
(n.)
Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are
really not so.
Bastard
(n.)
Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a
bastard culverin.
Bastard
(n.)
Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the
full title page of a book.
Bastard
(v. t.)
To bastardize.
Bastardism
(n.)
The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
Bastardize
(v. t.)
To beget out of wedlock.
Bastardize
(v. t.)
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Bastardized
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bastardize
Bastardizing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bastardize
Bastardly
(adv.)
In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
Bastardly
(a.)
Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
Bastardy
(n.)
The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
Bastardy
(n.)
The procreation of a bastard child.
Baste
(v. t.)
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Baste
(v. t.)
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that
the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
Baste
(v. t.)
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as
on meat in roasting.
Baste
(v. t.)
To mark with tar, as sheep.
Basted
(imp. & p. p.)
of Baste
Bastile Bastille
(n.)
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in
Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a
rhetorical name for a prison.
Bastile Bastille
(n.)
A tower or an elevated work, used for the
defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.