[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bastard \bas"tard\, a.
   1. begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
      see bastard, n., note.
      1913 webster

   2. lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
      applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
      but are really not so.
      1913 webster

            that bastard self-love which is so vicious in
            itself, and productive of so many vices. --barrow.
      1913 webster

   3. of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
      bastard musket; a bastard culverin. obs.
      1913 webster

   4. print. abbreviated, as the half title in a page
      preceding the full title page of a book.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
bastard bastard ashlar bastard file bastard type bastard wing 

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