See Also: Bastard(medicine)
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BASTARD EIGNE', Eng(law)
BASTARD EIGNE' , Eng(law)
Bastard String - Archery(gambling)

bastard (iou)



bastard noun & adjective. . ME.

A. noun.
A person conceived and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child. ME.
fig.: T. Fuller Fame being a bastard or filia populi, 'tis very hard to find her father.
A sweet Spanish wine, resembling muscatel; any sweetened wine. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
Shakespeare Measure for Measure We shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
Something of unusual make, shape, or proportion, or of inferior quality; esp. (a) a kind of culverin; (b) a size of paper. L15.
A person of mixed Nama and European ancestry; a Griqua, a Rehobother. S. Afr. L18.
An unpleasant or unfortunate person or thing; (in weakened sense) a chap, a fellow. colloq. M19.
H. G. Wells Serve the cocky little bastard right. T. Rattigan Johnny, you old bastard! Are you all right? J. Maclaren-Ross This bastard of a bump on the back of my head. M. Shadbolt At first Ned and Nick had to milk in the open, which was a bastard when it rained.
Bastarda script. E20.
b. adjective.
Born out of wedlock. ME.
Hybrid; not genuine; spurious, corrupt. LME.
Disraeli That bastard, but picturesque style of architecture, called the Italian Gothic. J. Cheever It was not Italian..it was a bastard language of a little Spanish and a little something that Clementina had never heard before.
Of unusual shape or size (applied e.g. to a file intermediate between coarse and fine, to a font of type, etc.). LME.
Irregular, unauthorized, unrecognized. M16.
Bacon Usurie..is the Bastard use of Money.
Having the appearance of; of an inferior kind; esp. (in names of animals, plants, etc.) closely resembling (the species etc. whose name follows). M16.
bastard balm, bastard pellitory, bastard saffron, bastard toadflax, etc.
R. I. Murchison A bastard limestone charged with encrinites.
Designating, of or pertaining to, a person of mixed Nama and European race. S. Afr. L18.
Bastarda. L19.
Special collocations & comb.: bastard hartebeest = TSESSEBI. bastard mahogany any of several Australian eucalypts, esp. Eucalyptus botryoides. bastard sandalwood = NAIO. bastard title a half-title. bastard-trench verb trans. (Horticulture) dig (ground) by digging over the lower soil with the topsoil temporarily removed. bastard trout US the silver sea trout, Cynoscion nothus. bastard wing Ornithology a group of small quill feathers borne by the first digit of a bird's wing.
bastardism noun = BASTARDY L16-M18.
bastardly adjective = BASTARD adjective M16-L18.