Helen Fenton

Bastardize: Definition and part of speech

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Bastardize

  1. v. t. To beget out of wedlock.
  2. v. t. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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.

Bastardly: Definition and part of speech

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Bastardly

  1. adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
  2. a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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.

Baste: Definition and part of speech

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Baste

  1. v. t. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; — usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
  2. v. t. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
  3. v. t. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
  4. v. t. To mark with tar, as sheep.

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.

Bastile Bastille: Definition and part of speech

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Bastile Bastille

  1. n. “The Bastille”, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
  2. n. A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.

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.

Bastinado: Definition and part of speech

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Bastinado

  1. n. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
  2. n. A blow with a stick or cudgel.

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.