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The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. Brande & C.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

he West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgativ…

imself to receive the property and pay the consideration. A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.…

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship…

A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

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

Illegitimately; in bastardy. [Archaic] Knolles.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

als, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.