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bastard

ˈbæstərd
WordNet
Model of a three-legged bastard (krikkemik) with a single spindle and heavy block. Both boxing spokes, chain and pin are missing. With cannon.
Model of a three-legged bastard (krikkemik) with a single spindle and heavy block. Both boxing spokes, chain and pin are missing. With cannon.
  1. (adj) bastard
    fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  2. (n) bastard
    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"
  3. (n) bastard
    insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
  4. (n) bastard
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
Illustrations
Model of a four-legged bastard. The lifting spindle is driven by a crank operated worm gear. The bronze gun model hanging from the hoist is missing.
Model of a four-legged bastard. The lifting spindle is driven by a crank operated worm gear. The bronze gun model hanging from the hoist is missing.
Mock drawing on the Spaniard: a richly dressed Spaniard stands in the midst of seven bastards, who taunt and mock him.
Mock drawing on the Spaniard: a richly dressed Spaniard stands in the midst of seven bastards, who taunt and mock him.
Typefaces of the textura, fraktur and bastarde, fourteen lines. The print is part of an album.
Typefaces of the textura, fraktur and bastarde, fourteen lines. The print is part of an album.
Portrait of Alessandro de 'Medici (1510-1537), called Il Moro, the bastard son of Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). Bust to the left, dressed in a chain mail.
Alessandro de 'Medici (1510-37)
Allegory in honor of a bastard son of the Bourbon family, probably Henri van Verneuil.
Allegory in honor of a bastard son of the Bourbon family, probably Henri van Verneuil.
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, bastard of Charles IX of France and his mistress Marie Touchet.
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, bastard of Charles IX of France and his mistress Marie Touchet.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Bastard
    (Sugar Refining) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  2. Bastard
    A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor. "Brown bastard is your only drink."
  3. Bastard
    A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  4. Bastard
    A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  5. Bastard
    (Print) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
  6. Bastard
    (Sugar Refining) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings.
  7. Bastard
    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."
  8. Bastard
    Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
  9. Bastard
    To bastardize.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) bastard
    A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or spurious child. By the civil and canon laws (a rule adopted also in many of the United States), a bastard becomes a legitimate child by the marriage of the parents at any future time. But by the laws of England a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage; it does not require that the child shall be begotten in wedlock, but it is indispensable that it should be born after marriage, no matter how short the time, the law presuming it to be the child of the husband. The only legal incapacity of a bastard is that he cannot be heir or next of kin to any one save his own issue. Inheritance from the mother is allowed in some jurisdictions. In England the maintenance of a bastard in the first instance devolves on the mother, while in Scotland it is a joint burden upon both parents. The mother is entitled to the custody of the child in preference to the father. In the United States the father may be compelled to provide support.
  2. (n) bastard
    In sugar-refining: A large mold into which sugar is drained.
  3. (n) bastard
    An impure, coarse brown sugar made from the refuse syrup of previous boilings.
  4. (n) bastard
    An animal of inferior breed; a mongrel.
  5. (n) bastard
    A kind of woolen cloth, probably of inferior quality, or of unusual width, or both.
  6. (n) bastard
    A kind of war-vessel used in the middle ages, probably of unusual size.
  7. (n) bastard
    In the seventeenth century, a small cannon, otherwise known as a bastard culverin (which see, under culverin).
  8. (n) bastard
    A sweet Spanish wine resembling muscadel; any kind of sweetened wine.
  9. (n) bastard
    In falconry, a kind of hawk.
  10. (n) bastard
    A local name of Kemp's gulf-turtle, Thalassochelys (Colpochelys) kempi, of the Gulf of Mexico.
  11. bastard
    Begotten and born out of wedlock; illegitimate: as, a bastard child.
  12. bastard
    Mongrel; hybrid: as, a bastard brood.
  13. bastard
    Unauthorized; unrecognized: as, “bastard officers before God,”
  14. bastard
    Spurious; not genuine; false; supposititious; adulterate: as, “bastard hope,” ; “bastard honours,”
  15. bastard
    Having the appearance of being genuine; resembling in some degree: an epithet applied especially in botany, zoölogy, medicine, etc., to things which resemble, but are not identical with, the things named: as, bastard mahogany, bastard pimpernel, bastard caddis, bastard marble, bastard measles, etc. See phrases below. Also bastardly.
  16. bastard
    Of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: applied to guns, ships, swords: as, bastard culverin, bastard galley, etc. See phrases.
  17. bastard
    A local English name (in Weymouth) of the variegated sole, Solea variegata.
  18. bastard
    To declare to be a bastard; stigmatize as a bastard; bastardize.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Bastard
    bas′tard a child born of parents not married
  2. (adj) Bastard
    born out of wedlock: not genuine: resembling, but not identical with, the species bearing the name: of abnormal shape or size: false
Quotations
Wyndham Lewis
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.
Wyndham Lewis
John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A Dickson
John Lennon
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John Lennon
Samuel Beckett
The bastard! He doesn't exist!
Samuel Beckett
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Joy Baluch
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. bastard, bastart, F. btard, prob. fr. OF. bast, F. bt, 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

Usage in the news

Jesse Ebaugh, Dave Colvin, Erika Wennerstrom, and Mark Nathan of Heartless Bastards. ashingtonian.com

Heartless Bastards Live at The Royale. ers.org

The Heartless Bastards are anything but heartless . radio1190.org

Heartless Bastards deliver ferocious show. dailygazette.com

Heartless Bastards rocked hard, late and long Thursday night at Upstate Concert Hall, leaving no musical stone unturned. dailygazette.com

Austin, Texas, quartet Heartless Bastards are, from left, Jesse Ebagh, Dave Colvin, Erika Wennerstrom and Mark Nathan. denverpost.com

Heartless Bastards (with Tenement Ruth and Frank Smith) captivate the Firebird, Tuesday, September 11 Featured. kdhx.org

Heartless Bastards (with Tenement Ruth and Frank Smith) captivate the Firebird, Tuesday, September 11. kdhx.org

This past Saturday Heartless Bastards, and Austin's Frank Smith (the band, not a man), brought their amazing live performance back to Headliners. louisville.com

Erika Wennerstrom, the headstrong force behind Heartless Bastards, has paid her dues, and the dividends show — musically, if not otherwise. riverfronttimes.com

Heartless Bastards, "Only For You". blog.newsok.com

Julian Marley and Heartless Bastards. blog.al.com

Polica, Heartless Bastards, Bear In Heaven and Danny Brown. startribune.com

Heartless Bastards Spread Stylistic Wings. daytoncitypaper.com

Artist / Band: Heartless Bastards. kdhx.org

Usage in scientific papers

Following woodworking terminology, I propose to call a moduli space satisfying conditions (1–4) a bastard moduli space.
Moduli of varieties of general type

Bastard, Wave Mechanics applied to semiconductor heterostructure(Les Editions de Physique, Les Ulis, France, 1988). F.
Intertwining of exactly solvable generalized Schrodinger equations

Bastard, Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructures (Les Editions de Physique, Cedex, 1988). C.
Quantum Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Systems

Bastard, Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructures, (Halsted Press, New York, 1988); C.
Flatland Electrons in High Magnetic Fields

Bastard, Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructure (Les Editions de Physique, Les Ulis, France, 1988) 2 P. Harrison, Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots (John Wiley and Sons, 2000); L. Serra and E.
Nonrelativistic Green's function for systems with position-dependent mass

Usage in literature

The cornice, too, is a bastard Ionic, without modillions or dentils. "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

Thus a bastard system of federo-republicanism will rise on the ruins of the true principles of our revolution. "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

His murder by Henry's hand left the bastard undisputed master of Castille. "History of the English People, Volume II (of 8)" by John Richard Green

No coloured persons or bastards shall be admitted into our Assemblies. "Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain" by Various

Jamyn (bastard), illegitimate daughter of Amadis Jamyn, page of Ronsard. "Women of Modern France" by Hugo P. Thieme

A bastard named Arsames, who might possibly have aspired to the crown, was assassinated by Ochus. "History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)" by G. Maspero

The children I had brought him he entirely neglected as if they had been bastards. "Dialogues of the Dead" by Lord Lyttelton

The Bastard was overjoyed at this, and, guiding himself wholly by the governess's advice, had speech with his sweetheart whensoever he would. "The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.)" by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

One detachment was sent to occupy Bastard's Nek, another defile to the west of Plessis Poort. "Sir John French" by Cecil Chisholm

Shall the Trojans claim The realm, and bastards dare the Latin race to shame? "The Aeneid of Virgil" by Virgil

Usage in poetry
The other does that
His hair long and plausive
Bastard
Masturbating a glitter
He wants to be loved.
Oh Ernie, who on earth I knew
In war and wine,
Though frail of fame, in soul how you
Were pure and fine!
I'm proud that once when we were plastered
You called me 'bastard.'
Of course I took it gently up
And brought it to my wife
Who loves all dogs, and now that pup
Shares in our happy life:
Yet how I curse the bastards who
Its good luck never knew!
Poverty wants no pity, only justice!
Pity? Bastard daughter of cunning fathers,
Who like the Pharisees, beating the drum
Ostentatiously for their own sly ends,
Drop a penny in the beggar's hands.
Poverty wants no pity, only justice!
Pity? Bastard daughter of cunning fathers,
Who like the Pharisees, beating the drum
Ostentatiously for their own sly ends,
Drop a penny in the beggar's hands.
I'll drink-smash everything in sight but never mind,
I'll pay myself! Can I not afford to break a glass or two?
I can, you bastards! With the rubles from my black grind
I could even have two dozen mistresses to woo.