Helen Fenton

Bast: Definition and part of speech

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Bast

  1. n. A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
  2. n. The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bastard: Definition and part of speech

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Bastard

  1. v. t. To bastardize.
  2. n. A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
  3. n. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
  4. n. A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
  5. n. A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
  6. n. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
  7. a. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
  8. n. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; — applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
  9. n. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
  10. n. Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.