Part 944

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A thick mat or hassock. See 2d <er>Bass</er>, 2.</def>

<h1>Basta</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>interj.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <def>Enough; stop.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Bastard</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>bastard</ets>, <ets>bastart</ets>, F. <ets>b<?/tard</ets>, prob. fr. OF. <ets>bast</ets>, F. <ets>b<?/t</ets>, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers (fr. LL. <ets>bastum</ets>) + <ets>-ard</ets>. OF. fils de <ets>bast</ets> 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. <ets>bankert</ets>, fr. <ets>bank</ets> bench.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.</def>

<note>&hand; By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of the United States, a <i>bastard</i> 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 <i>born</i> after the lawful marriage.</note>

<i>Kent. Blackstone.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Sugar Refining)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that <?/ already had several boilings.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.</def>

<blockquote>Brown <b>bastard</b> is your only drink. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A writing paper of a particular size. See <er>Paper</er>.</def>

<h1>Bastard</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See <er>Bastard</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, note.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.</def>

<blockquote>That <b>bastard</b> self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Of an unusual make or proportion; <as>as, a <ex>bastard</ex> musket; a <ex>bastard</ex> culverin.</as></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.</def>

<cs><col>Bastard ashlar</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.</cd> -- <col>Bastard file</col>, <cd>a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.</cd> -- <col>Bastard type</col> <fld>(Print.)</fld>, <cd>type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; <i>e.g.</i>, a nonpareil face on a brevier body.</cd> -- <col>Bastard wing</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bastard</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bastardize.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Bastardism</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being a bastard; bastardy.</def>

<h1>Bastardize</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bastardized</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bastardizing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.</def>

<blockquote>The law is so indulgent as not to <b>bastardize</b> the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To beget out of wedlock.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>