English English Dictionary

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

To bastardize.

The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

To beget out of wedlock.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

The procreation of a bastard child.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

To mark with tar, as sheep.

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"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.