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Bastard
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
(2):
(n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
(3):
(n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; - applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
(4):
(n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
(5):
(n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
(6):
(n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
(7):
(n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
(8):
(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
(9):
(a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
(10):
(v. t.) To bastardize.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bastard'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bastard.html. 1828.
