Bastard

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  • noun. A person born to parents not married to each other.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person considered to be mean or contemptible.
  • noun. A person, especially one considered to be unfortunate.
  • noun. Something that is of irregular, inferior, or dubious origin.
  • adjective. Born to parents not married to each other.
  • adjective. Not genuine; spurious.
  • adjective. Resembling a known kind or species but not truly such.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or spurious child.
  • noun. In sugar-refining: A large mold into which sugar is drained.
  • noun. An impure, coarse brown sugar made from the refuse syrup of previous boilings.
  • noun. An animal of inferior breed; a mongrel.
  • noun. A kind of woolen cloth, probably of inferior quality, or of unusual width, or both.
  • noun. A kind of war-vessel used in the middle ages, probably of unusual size.
  • noun. In the seventeenth century, a small cannon, otherwise known as a bastard culverin (which see, under culverin).
  • noun. A sweet Spanish wine resembling muscadel; any kind of sweetened wine.
  • noun. In falconry, a kind of hawk.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings.
  • noun. A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  • noun. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
  • noun. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  • transitive verb. To bastardize.
  • adjective. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See bastard, n., note.
  • adjective. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
  • adjective. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion.
  • adjective. Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
  • adjective. stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.
  • adjective. a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.
  • adjective. type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body.
  • adjective. three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
  • noun. A mongrel. A biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.
  • noun. A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person. See asshole, sod.
  • noun. A man, a fellow, a male friend.
  • noun. A child that does not know his or her father.
  • noun. Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
  • noun. A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
  • noun. An intermediate-grade steel file; also : bastard file.
  • noun. A sweet wine.
  • Word Usage
    "Newcomer Kit Harington tells TVGuide that he had to learn to embrace the term "bastard," which is used quite frequently and openly in the series to describe his character Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Winterfell's Lord Ned Stark Sean Bean."
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