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Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

ody of your discourse it sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Shak.

projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

n calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.

ack of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

mbling the true hemp. 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 cannabinu…

One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. Bastian.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.

hoop petticoat. -- Hoop snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. -- Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervire…

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.

To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

ack or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra).

Full of ire; angry; wroth. "The ireful bastard Orleans." Shak. -- Ire"ful*ly, adv.

A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and mérou.