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/bˈæstərd wɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Bastard adj.

Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. "That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices."

Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. (Obs.)

(Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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