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Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

See Bombast. [Obs.]

A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

To bastardize. [Obs.]

To bastardize; to debase. [Obs.] Milton.

Patchwork. [Obs.] Dr. J. Smith.

To beat severely. [Low] Nares.

Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial. Bp. Warburton.

Somewhat astringent.

or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Illegitimate by birth; bastard. [Archaic] Why bastard wherefore base Shak.

Illegitimately; in bastardy. [Archaic] Knolles.

e, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

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.