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   Bastard , a.
    Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
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   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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   Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
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   (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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