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A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or spurious child.
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In sugar-refining: A large mold into which sugar is drained.
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An impure, coarse brown sugar made from the refuse syrup of previous boilings.
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An animal of inferior breed; a mongrel.
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A kind of woolen cloth, probably of inferior quality, or of unusual width, or both.
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A kind of war-vessel used in the middle ages, probably of unusual size.
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In the seventeenth century, a small cannon, otherwise known as a bastard culverin (which see, under culverin).
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A sweet Spanish wine resembling muscadel; any kind of sweetened wine.
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In falconry, a kind of hawk.
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A local name of Kemp's gulf-turtle, Thalassochelys (Colpochelys) kempi, of the Gulf of Mexico.
Begotten and born out of wedlock; illegitimate: as, a bastard child.
Mongrel; hybrid: as, a bastard brood.
Unauthorized; unrecognized: as, “bastard officers before God,”
Spurious; not genuine; false; supposititious; adulterate: as, “bastard hope,” ; “bastard honours,”
Having the appearance of being genuine; resembling in some degree: an epithet applied especially in botany, zoölogy, medicine, etc., to things which resemble, but are not identical with, the things named: as, bastard mahogany, bastard pimpernel, bastard caddis, bastard marble, bastard measles, etc. See phrases below. Also bastardly.
Of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: applied to guns, ships, swords: as, bastard culverin, bastard galley, etc. See phrases.
A local English name (in Weymouth) of the variegated sole, Solea variegata.
To declare to be a bastard; stigmatize as a bastard; bastardize.