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The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

Enough; stop. Shak.

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.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

r an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

See Bastinado, n.

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached b…

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

The ace of clubs in qua Pope.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

te. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Alabastrine.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

A flower bud. Gray.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.