BASTARD
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Bas"tard (&unr_;), n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b&unr_;tard, prob. fr. OF. bast, F. b&unr_;t, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, “Don Quixote,” chap. 16; and cf. G. bankert, fr. bank bench.] 1. A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
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&hand_; By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent time. But by those of England, and of some states of the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage. Kent. Blackstone.
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2. (Sugar Refining) (a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings. (b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
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3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
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Brown bastard is your only drink.
Shak.
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4. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
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Bas"tard (&unr_;), a. 1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices.
Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
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Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zo&ö;l.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.
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Bas"tard, v. t. To bastardize. [Obs.] Bacon.
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