Chapter Bassa to Bateau of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Bastard ashlar

(Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. — Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. — Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. — Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.

Bastard
(Bas"tard), v. t. To bastardize. [Obs.] Bacon.

Bastardism
(Bas"tard*ism) n. The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

Bastardize
(Bas"tard*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]

1. 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.

2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] Shak.

Bastardly
(Bas"tard*ly), a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [Obs.] — adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [Obs.] Shak. Donne.

Bastardy
(Bas"tar*dy) n.

1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.

Baste
(Baste) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Basted; p. pr. & vb. n. Basting.] [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.]

1. 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.

2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

Baste
(Baste), v. t. [OE. basten, OF. bastir, F. btir, prob. fr. OHG. bestan to sew, MHG. besten to bind, fr. OHG. bast bast. See Bast.] To sew loosely, or with long stitches; — usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

Bastile
(Bas*tile" Bas*tille") (bas*tel" or bas"tel; 277), n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. bâtir.]

1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.

The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls.
Holland.

2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

Bastinade
(Bas`ti*nade") n. See Bastinado, n.

Bastinade
(Bas`ti*nade"), v. t. To bastinado. [Archaic]

Bastinado
(Bas`ti*na"do) n.; pl. Bastinadoes [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. bâton) a stick or staff. See Baston.]