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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 bastardize. [Obs.]

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

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.

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

Illegitimately; in bastardy. [Archaic] Knolles.

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.

by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal. -- Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret" Thac…

An illegitimate child; a bastard. The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

A writing paper Bastard. See under Paper.

A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Obs.] Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.

ething beside; as, Who else is coming What else shall I give Do you expect anything else "Bastards and else." Shak.