meaning of bastard
1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
2. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
3. A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
4. A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
5. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
6. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n. , note.
7. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
8. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
9. Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
10. To bastardize.
11. 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"
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