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The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

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.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

A cofferdam. Brande & C.

To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.

A bird of the genus Otis.

A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.

ongestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.

One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

Catarrhal. [R.]