slovo | definícia |
bastard (encz) | bastard,bastard n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,darebák n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,gauner n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,kripl n: Vít Hrachový |
bastard (encz) | bastard,kříženec n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,levoboček n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,míšenec n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,mizera n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,nemanželské dítě n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,nemanželský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,panchart n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (encz) | bastard,zmetek n: Vít Hrachový |
bastard (czen) | bastard,bastardn: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (czen) | bastard,by-blown: Zdeněk Brož |
Bastard (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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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Bastard (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob.
fr. OF. bast, F. b?t, 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.]
1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of
wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit
union.
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Note: By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of
the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child
by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent
time. But by those of England, and of some states of
the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at
least be born after the lawful marriage. --Kent.
Blackstone.
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2. (Sugar Refining)
(a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from
the sirups that have already had several boilings.
(b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
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3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
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Brown bastard is your only drink. --Shak.
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4. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
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Bastard (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, v. t.
To bastardize. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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bastard (gcide) | Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L.
gadus merlangus.] (Zool.)
An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense
numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is
especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of
Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
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Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from
shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and
rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often
dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a
distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue,
buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs
to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under
Buffalo.
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Cod fishery, the business of fishing for cod.
Cod line, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish.
--McElrath.
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bastard (wn) | bastard
adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus,
fake, phony, phoney, bastard]
n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or
irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard,
cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker,
motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch,
SOB]
2: the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn:
bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child,
illegitimate, whoreson]
3: 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" [syn: bastard, mongrel] |
BASTARD (bouvier) | BASTARD. A word derived from bas or bast, signifying abject, low, base; and
aerd, nature. Minshew, Co. Lit. 244; a. Enfant de bas, a child of low birth.
Dupin. According to Blackstone, 1 Com. 454, a bastard in the law sense of
the word, is a person not only begotten, but born out of lawful matrimony.
This definition does not appear to be complete, inasmuch as it does not
embrace the case of a person who is the issue of an illicit connection,
during the coverture of his mother. The common law, says the Mirror, only
taketh him to be a son whom the marriage proveth to be so. Horne's Mirror,
c. 2, Sec. 7; see Glanv. lib 8, cap. 13 Bract. 63, a. b.; 2 Salk. 427;, 8
East, 204. A bastard may be perhaps defined to be one who is born of an
illicit union, and before the lawful marriage of his parents.
2. A man is a bastard if born, first) before the marriage of his
parents; but although he may have been begotten while his parents were
single, yet if they afterwards marry, and he is born during the coverture,
he is legitimate. 1 Bl. Com. 455, 6. Secondly, if born during the coverture,
under circumstances which render it impossible that the husband of his
mother can be his father. 6 Binn. 283; 1 Browne's R. Appx. xlvii.; 4 T. R.
356; Str. 940 Id. 51 8 East, 193; Hardin's R. 479. It seems by the Gardner
peerage case, reported by Dennis Le Marebant, esquire, that strong moral
improbability that the husband is not the father, is sufficient to
bastardize the issue. Bac. Ab. tit. Bastardy, A, last ed. Thirdly, if born
beyond a competent time after the coverture has determined. Stark. Ev. part
4, p. 221, n. a Co. Litt. 123, b, by Hargrave & Butler in the note. See
Gestation.
3. The principal right which bastard children have, is that of
maintenance from their parents. 1 Bl. Com. 458; Code Civ. of Lo. 254 to 262.
To protect the public from their support, the law compels the putative
father to maintain his bastard children. See Bastardy; Putative father.
4. Considered as nullius filius, a bastard has no inheritable blood in
him, and therefore no estate can descend. to him; but he may take by
testament, if properly described, after he has obtained a name by reputation.
1 Rop. Lew. 76, 266; Com. Dig. Descent, C, l2; Ie. Bastard, E; Co. Lit. 123,
a; Id. 3, a; 1 T. R. 96 Doug. 548 3 Dana, R. 233; 4 Pick. R. 93; 4 Desaus.
434. But this hard rule has been somewhat mitigated in some of the states,
where, by statute, various inheritable qualities have been conferred upon
bastards. See 5 Conn. 228; 1 Dev. Eq. R. 345; 2 Root, 280; 5 Wheat.. 207; 3
H. & M. 229, n; 5 Call. 143; 3 Dana, 233.
5. Bastards can acquire the rights of legitimate children only by an
act of the legislature. 1 Bl. Com. 460; 4 Inst. 36.
6. By the laws of Louisiana, a bastard is one who is born of an illicit
union. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 27, 199. There are two sorts of illegitimate
children; first, those who are born of two persons, who, at the moment such
children were conceived, might have legally contracted marriage with each
other; and, secondly, those who are born from persons, to whose marriage
there existed at the time, some legal impediment. Id. art. 200. An
adulterous bastard is one produced by an unlawful connexion between two
persons, who, at the time he was conceived, were, either of them, or both,
connected by marriage with some other person or persons. Id. art. 201.
Incestuous bastards are those who are produced by the illegal connexion of
two persons who are relations within the degrees prohibited by law. Id. art.
202.
7. Bastards, generally speaking, belong to no family, and have no
relations; accordingly they are not subject to paternal authority, even when
they have been acknowledged. See 11 East, 7, n. Nevertheless, fathers and
mothers owe alimony. to their children when they are in need. Id. art. 254,
256. Alimony is due to bastards, though they be adulterous or incestuous, by
the mother and her ascendants. Id. art. 262.
8. Children born out of marriage, except those who are born from an
incestuous or adulterous connexion, may be legitimated by the subsequent
marriage of their father and mother, whenever the latter have legally
acknowledged them for their children, either before the marriage or by the
contract of marriage itself. Every other mode of legitimating children is
abolished. Id. art. 217. Legitimation may even be extended to deceased
children who have left issue, and in that ease, it enures to the benefit of
that issue. Id. art. 218. Children legitimated by a subsequent marriage,
have the same rights as if born during the marriage. Id. art. 219. See,
generally, Vin. Abr. Bastards Bac. Abr. Bastard; Com. Dig. Bastard; Metc. &
Perk. Dig. h. t.; the various other American Digests, h. t.; Harr. Dig. h.
t.; 1 Bl. Com. 454 to 460; Co. Litt. 3, b.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t., And
Access; Bastardy; Gestation; Natural Children.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
bastard (encz) | bastard,bastard n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,darebák n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,gauner n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,kripl n: Vít Hrachovýbastard,kříženec n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,levoboček n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,míšenec n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,mizera n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,nemanželské dítě n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,nemanželský adj: Zdeněk Brožbastard,panchart n: Zdeněk Brožbastard,zmetek n: Vít Hrachový |
bastardisation (encz) | bastardisation,bastardizace n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastardise (encz) | bastardise,prohlásit za nemanželského v: Zdeněk Brožbastardise,znehodnotit v: Zdeněk Brož |
bastardised (encz) | bastardised,nekvalitní adj: Zdeněk Brožbastardised,znehodnotil v: Zdeněk Brož |
bastardization (encz) | bastardization,poničení n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastardize (encz) | bastardize,pokřivit v: Zdeněk Brožbastardize,poničit v: Zdeněk Brož |
bastards (encz) | bastards,bastardi n: pl. Zdeněk Brožbastards,darebáci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
bastardy (encz) | bastardy,nemanželský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (czen) | bastard,bastardn: Zdeněk Brožbastard,by-blown: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard [system] operator from hell (czen) | Bastard [system] Operator From Hell,BOFH[zkr.] |
bastardi (czen) | bastardi,bastardsn: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
bastardizace (czen) | bastardizace,bastardisationn: Zdeněk Brož |
bastard (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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]Bastard \Bas"tard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob.
fr. OF. bast, F. b?t, 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.]
1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of
wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit
union.
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Note: By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of
the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child
by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent
time. But by those of England, and of some states of
the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at
least be born after the lawful marriage. --Kent.
Blackstone.
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2. (Sugar Refining)
(a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from
the sirups that have already had several boilings.
(b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
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3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
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Brown bastard is your only drink. --Shak.
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4. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
[1913 Webster]Bastard \Bas"tard\, v. t.
To bastardize. [Obs.] --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L.
gadus merlangus.] (Zool.)
An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense
numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is
especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of
Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
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Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from
shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and
rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often
dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a
distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue,
buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs
to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under
Buffalo.
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Cod fishery, the business of fishing for cod.
Cod line, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish.
--McElrath.
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Bastard ashlar (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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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bastard bar (gcide) | Baton \Bat"on\ (b[a^]t"[u^]n, F. b[aum]`t[^o]N"; 277), n. [F.
b[^a]ton. See Baston.]
1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the
baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in
musical performances.
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He held the baton of command. --Prescott.
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2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister
as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in
breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also {bastard
bar}. See Bend sinister.
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Bastard eigne (gcide) | Eigne \Eigne\, a. [OF. aisn['e], ainsn['e], F. a[^i]n['e], fr.
L. ante natus born before. Cf. Esnecy.]
1. (Law) Eldest; firstborn. --Blackstone.
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2. Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Obs.]
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Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents
afterwards intermarry.
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Bastard file (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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]File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe['o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG.
f[imac]la, f[imac]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf.
Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out,
adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.]
1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made
by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or
smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
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Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made
by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed,
while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the
pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
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2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
figuratively.
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Mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
--Akenside.
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3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding.
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Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
--Thackeray.
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Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard,
Cross, etc.
Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing
obliquely.
File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for
cutting to form a file.
File cutter, a maker of files.
Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer
than bastard.
Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel
teeth; a float.
Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an
almost smooth surface.
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bastard gemsbok (gcide) | Roan \Roan\ (r[=o]n), a. [F. rouan; cf. Sp. roano, ruano, It.
rovano, roano.]
1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray
or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
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Give my roan a drench. --Shak.
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2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
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Roan antelope (Zool.), a very large South African antelope
(Hippotragus equinus). It has long sharp horns and a
stiff bright brown mane. Called also mahnya, {equine
antelope}, and bastard gemsbok.
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Bastard hemp (gcide) | Hemp \Hemp\ (h[e^]mp), n. [OE. hemp, AS. henep, h[ae]nep; akin
to D. hennep, OHG. hanaf, G. hanf, Icel. hampr, Dan. hamp,
Sw. hampa, L. cannabis, cannabum, Gr. ka`nnabis, ka`nnabos;
cf. Russ. konoplia, Skr. [,c]a[.n]a; all prob. borrowed from
some other language at an early time. Cf. Cannabine,
Canvas.]
1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cannabis ({Cannabis
sativa}), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for
making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to
various other plants yielding fiber.
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2. The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for
spinning. The name has also been extended to various
fibers resembling the true hemp.
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African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and
Bowstring.
Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina.
Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum),
the fiber of which was used by the Indians.
Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe
(Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset.
Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis ({Galeopsis
Tetrahit}), belonging to the Mint family.
Indian hemp. See under Indian, a.
Manila hemp, the fiber of Musa textilis.
Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of Mexico and
Yucatan.
Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant
(Crotalaria juncea).
Water hemp, an annual American weed (Acnida cannabina),
related to the amaranth.
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Bastard manchineel (gcide) | Manchineel \Man`chi*neel"\, n. [Sp. manzanillo, fr. manzana an
apple, fr. L. malum Matianum a kind of apple. So called from
its apple-like fruit.] (Bot.)
A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical
America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and
poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.
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Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the
East Indies, having similar poisonous properties.
--Lindley.
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Bastard pennyroyal (gcide) | Pennyroyal \Pen`ny*roy"al\, n. [A corruption of OE. puliall
royal. OE. puliall is ultimately derived fr. L. puleium, or
pulegium regium (so called as being good against fleas), fr.
pulex a flea; and royal is a translation of L. regium, in
puleium regium.] (Bot.)
An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North
American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in
flavor.
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Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.
[1913 Webster]Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r);
superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a],
D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F.
bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."
--Milton.
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2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
was blue with oaths.
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3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
as, blue laws.
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6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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The ladies were very blue and well informed.
--Thackeray.
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Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
black.
Blue blood. See under Blood.
Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope
(Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger
species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic
coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
bastard pennyroyal.
Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
useful. See Eucalyptus.
Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
uniform.
Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
puritanical laws. [U. S.]
Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
sea, and in military operations.
Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
his official robes.
Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
the blue pill. --McElrath.
Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
Blue Monday,
(a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself
given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
(b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a
workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
one of the British signal flags.
Blue pill. (Med.)
(a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
(b) Blue mass.
Blue ribbon.
(a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
-- hence, a member of that order.
(b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These
[scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college."
--Farrar.
(c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
Army.
Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush
(Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
Blue verditer. See Verditer.
Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
printing, etc.
Blue water, the open ocean.
Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation.
[Wall Street slang.] PJC
To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
Covenanters.
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For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.
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bastard pennyroyal (gcide) | Pennyroyal \Pen`ny*roy"al\, n. [A corruption of OE. puliall
royal. OE. puliall is ultimately derived fr. L. puleium, or
pulegium regium (so called as being good against fleas), fr.
pulex a flea; and royal is a translation of L. regium, in
puleium regium.] (Bot.)
An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North
American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in
flavor.
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Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.
[1913 Webster]Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r);
superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a],
D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F.
bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."
--Milton.
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2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
was blue with oaths.
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3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
as, blue laws.
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6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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The ladies were very blue and well informed.
--Thackeray.
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Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
black.
Blue blood. See under Blood.
Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope
(Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger
species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic
coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
bastard pennyroyal.
Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
useful. See Eucalyptus.
Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
uniform.
Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
puritanical laws. [U. S.]
Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
sea, and in military operations.
Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
his official robes.
Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
the blue pill. --McElrath.
Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
Blue Monday,
(a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself
given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
(b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a
workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
one of the British signal flags.
Blue pill. (Med.)
(a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
(b) Blue mass.
Blue ribbon.
(a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
-- hence, a member of that order.
(b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These
[scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college."
--Farrar.
(c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
Army.
Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush
(Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
Blue verditer. See Verditer.
Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
printing, etc.
Blue water, the open ocean.
Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation.
[Wall Street slang.] PJC
To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
Covenanters.
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For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.
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Bastard plover (gcide) | Plover \Plov"er\, n. [OF. plovier, F. pluvier, prop., the rain
bird, fr. LL. (assumed) pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from
pluere to rain; akin to E. float, G. fliessen to flow. See
Float.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds
belonging to the family Charadrid[ae], and especially
those belonging to the subfamily Charadrins[ae]. They
are prized as game birds.
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2. (Zool.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling,
the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola);
the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and
other species of sandpipers.
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Note: Among the more important species are the {blackbellied
plover} or blackbreasted plover ({Charadrius
squatarola}) of America and Europe; -- called also
gray plover, bull-head plover, Swiss plover, {sea
plover}, and oxeye; the golden plover (see under
Golden); the ring plover or ringed plover
(Aegialitis hiaticula). See Ringneck. The {piping
plover} (Aegialitis meloda); Wilson's plover
(Aegialitis Wilsonia); the mountain plover
(Aegialitis montana); and the semipalmated plover
(Aegialitis semipalmata), are all small American
species.
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Bastard plover (Zool.), the lapwing.
Long-legged plover, or yellow-legged plover. See
Tattler.
Plover's page, the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]
Rock plover, or Stone plover, the black-bellied plover.
[Prov. Eng.]
Whistling plover.
(a) The golden plover.
(b) The black-bellied plover.
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Bastard saffron (gcide) | Saffron \Saf"fron\ (?; 277), n. [OE. saffran, F. safran; cf. It.
zafferano, Sp. azafran, Pg. a[,c]afr[~a]o; all fr. Ar. & Per.
za' far[=a]n.]
1. (Bot.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus)
having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See
Crocus.
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2. The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of
the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in
cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors,
varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
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3. An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas
of the Crocus sativus.
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Bastard saffron, Dyer's saffron. (Bot.) See Safflower.
Meadow saffron (Bot.), a bulbous plant ({Colchichum
autumnale}) of Europe, resembling saffron.
Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African
tree (Elaeodendron croceum); also, the tree itself.
Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from
the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus).
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Bastard type (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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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Bastard wing (gcide) | Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
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2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
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That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
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3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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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bastardisation (gcide) | bastardisation \bastardisation\ n.
An act that debases or corrupts. [chiefly Brit.]
Syn: bastardization.
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bastardise (gcide) | bastardise \bastardise\ v. t.
Same as bastardize. [chiefly Brit.]
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Bastardism (gcide) | Bastardism \Bas"tard*ism\, n.
The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
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bastardization (gcide) | bastardization \bastardization\ n.
An act that debases or corrupts.
Syn: bastardisation.
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Bastardize (gcide) | Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
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2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
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Bastardized (gcide) | Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
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2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
[WordNet 1.5]bastardized \bastardized\ adj. (Arts)
deriving from more than one source or style. impure (vs.
pure) --- (combined with extraneous elements)
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bastardized (gcide) | Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
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2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
[WordNet 1.5]bastardized \bastardized\ adj. (Arts)
deriving from more than one source or style. impure (vs.
pure) --- (combined with extraneous elements)
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Bastardizing (gcide) | Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
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2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
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Bastardly (gcide) | Bastardly \Bas"tard*ly\, a.
Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv. In
the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [Obs.] --Shak. Donne.
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Bastardy (gcide) | Bastardy \Bas"tar*dy\, n.
1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
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2. The procreation of a bastard child. --Wharton.
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Embastardize (gcide) | Embastardize \Em*bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [Pref. em- + bastardize.]
To bastardize. [Obs.]
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Imbastardize (gcide) | Imbastardize \Im*bas"tard*ize\, v. t.
To bastardize; to debase. [Obs.] --Milton.
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bastard (wn) | bastard
adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus,
fake, phony, phoney, bastard]
n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or
irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard,
cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker,
motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch,
SOB]
2: the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn:
bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child,
illegitimate, whoreson]
3: 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" [syn: bastard, mongrel] |
bastard feverfew (wn) | bastard feverfew
n 1: tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of
white flowers; adventive in southern United States [syn:
bastard feverfew, Parthenium hysterophorus] |
bastard indigo (wn) | bastard indigo
n 1: East Indian shrub [syn: bastard indigo, {Tephrosia
purpurea}]
2: dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the
eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and
dense racemes of dark purple flowers [syn: false indigo,
bastard indigo, Amorpha fruticosa]
3: an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the
United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers [syn:
false indigo, bastard indigo, Amorpha californica] |
bastard lignum vitae (wn) | bastard lignum vitae
n 1: small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West
Indies a source of lignum vitae wood [syn: {bastard lignum
vitae}, Guaiacum sanctum] |
bastard pennyroyal (wn) | bastard pennyroyal
n 1: aromatic plant of the eastern United States [syn: {bastard
pennyroyal}, Trichostema dichotomum] |
bastard pimpernel (wn) | bastard pimpernel
n 1: weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves [syn:
chaffweed, bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel] |
bastard ridley (wn) | bastard ridley
n 1: grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North
America [syn: Atlantic ridley, bastard ridley, {bastard
turtle}, Lepidochelys kempii] |
bastard title (wn) | bastard title
n 1: a first page of some books displaying only the title of the
book [syn: half title, bastard title] |
bastard toadflax (wn) | bastard toadflax
n 1: woody creeping parasite of western North America having
numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-
white flowers [syn: bastard toadflax, Comandra pallida] |
bastard turtle (wn) | bastard turtle
n 1: grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North
America [syn: Atlantic ridley, bastard ridley, {bastard
turtle}, Lepidochelys kempii] |
bastard wing (wn) | bastard wing
n 1: tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's
wing [syn: bastard wing, alula, spurious wing] |
bastard yellowwood (wn) | bastard yellowwood
n 1: medium-sized tree of South Africa [syn: {common
yellowwood}, bastard yellowwood, Afrocarpus falcata] |
bastardisation (wn) | bastardisation
n 1: an act that debases or corrupts [syn: bastardization,
bastardisation] |
bastardise (wn) | bastardise
v 1: change something so that its value declines; for example,
art forms [syn: bastardize, bastardise]
2: declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: bastardize,
bastardise] |
bastardised (wn) | bastardised
adj 1: deriving from more than one source or style [syn:
bastardized, bastardised] |
bastardization (wn) | bastardization
n 1: declaring or rendering bastard; "the annulment of their
marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children"
2: an act that debases or corrupts [syn: bastardization,
bastardisation] |
bastardize (wn) | bastardize
v 1: change something so that its value declines; for example,
art forms [syn: bastardize, bastardise]
2: declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: bastardize,
bastardise] |
bastardized (wn) | bastardized
adj 1: deriving from more than one source or style [syn:
bastardized, bastardised] |
bastardly (wn) | bastardly
adj 1: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"-
E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten,
spurious]
2: of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic"
[syn: bastardly, mean] |
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