From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bastard \Bas"tard\, 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} (Zool.), three to five quill feathers on a
small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia;
the alula.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bastard \Bas"tard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob.
fr. OF. bast, F. b?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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Note: 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bastard \Bas"tard\, v. t.
To bastardize. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L.
gadus merlangus.] (Zool.)
An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua}), taken in immense
numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is
especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of
Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
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Note: There are several varieties; as {shore cod}, from
shallow water; {bank cod}, from the distant banks; and
{rock cod}, which is found among ledges, and is often
dark brown or mottled with red. The {tomcod} is a
distinct species of small size. The {bastard}, {blue},
{buffalo}, or {cultus cod} of the Pacific coast belongs
to a distinct family. See {Buffalo cod}, under
{Buffalo}.
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{Cod fishery}, the business of fishing for cod.
{Cod line}, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish.
--McElrath.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bastard
adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: {bogus},
{fake}, {phony}, {phoney}, {bastard}]
n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or
irritating or ridiculous [syn: {asshole}, {bastard},
{cocksucker}, {dickhead}, {shit}, {mother fucker},
{motherfucker}, {prick}, {whoreson}, {son of a bitch},
{SOB}]
2: the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn:
{bastard}, {by-blow}, {love child}, {illegitimate child},
{illegitimate}, {whoreson}]
3: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine;
something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the
architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not
true Gothic" [syn: {bastard}, {mongrel}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Bastard /bastart/
mongrel
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