BASTARDIZE
B'ASTARDIZE, verb transitive To make or prove to be a bastard; to convict of being a bastard; to declare legally, or decide a person to be illegitimate.The law is so indulgent a...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BASTARDLY
B'ASTARDLY, adverb In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
BASTARDS
B'ASTARDS, an appellation given to a faction or troop of bandits, who ravaged Guienne in France in the 14th century; supposed to have been headed by the illegitimate sons of nob...
BASTARDY
B'ASTARDY, noun A state of being a bastard, or begotten and born out of lawful wedlock, which condition disables the person from inheriting an estate.
BASTARNIC
BASTARN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Basternae, ancient inhabitants of the Carpathian mountains.Bastarnic Alps, the Carpathian mountains, between Poland, Hungary and Transvlv...
BASTAS
BAS'TAS, noun An India cloth or plain muslin. That of Surat is said to be the best.
BASTE
BASTE, verb transitive1. To beat with a stick.2. To drip butter or fat upon meat, as it turns upon the spit, in roasting; to moisten with fat or other liquid.BASTE, verb transit...
BASTED
BASTED, participle passive Beat with a stick; moistened with fat or other matter in roasting; sewed together with long stitches, or slightly.
BASTILE
BAS'TILE, noun An old castle in Paris, built between 1369 and 1383, used as a state prison, and converted to the purpose of confining men for life, who happened to incur the res...
BASTINADE
BASTINA'DEBASTINA'DO, noun [See Baste.] A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks,...
BASTINADO
BASTINA'DO, n. [See Baste.] A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks, of beating ...
BASTING
BASTING, participle present tense Beating with a stick; moistening with dripping; sewing together with long stitches.BASTING, noun A beating with a stick; a moistening with drip...
BASTION
BAS'TION, noun bas'chun. A huge mass of earth, usually faced with sods, sometimes with brick, or stones, standing out from a rampart, of which it is a principal part; formerly c...
BASTO
BAS'TO, noun The ace of clubs at quadrille.
BASTON
BAS'TON, or BATOON', noun In architecture, a round molding in the base of a column; called also a tore, [torus.]
BAT
BAT, noun1. A heavy stick or club; a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other.2.bat or bate, a small copper coin of Germany, with a small mixture of silver, ...
BATABLE
BA'TABLE, adjective [See Bate and Debate.] Disputable. The land between England and Scotland, which, when the kingdoms were distinct, wasa subject of contention, was called bata...
BATATAS
BATA'TAS, noun A species of tick or mite, found on the potatoes of Surinam. Also the Peruvian name of the sweet potatoe.
BATAVIAN
BATA'VIAN, adjective [from Batavi, the people who inhabited the isle.]Pertaining to the isle of Betaw in Holland, between the Rhine and the Waal. But more generally, the word de...
BATCH
BATCH, noun [from bake.]1. The quantity of bread baked at one time; a baking of bread.2. Any quantity of a thing made at once, or so united as to have like qualities.
BATE
BATE, noun [It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.]Strife; contention; retained in make-bate.BATE, verb transitive [The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to ...
BATE-BREEDING
BATE-BREEDING, adjective Breeding strife. [Not used.]
BATEAU
BATEAU, noun batto'. [Latin batillum.] A light boat, long in proportion to its breadth, and wider in the middle than at the ends.
BATEFUL
BA'TEFUL, adjective Contentious; given to strife; exciting contention.
BATELESS
BA'TELESS, adjective Not to be abated.
BATEMENT
BA'TEMENT, noun Abatement; deduction; diminution. [Bate, with its derivatives, is, I believe, little used, or wholly obsolete in the United States.]
BATENISTS
BAT'ENITES, BAT'ENISTS, or BATE'NIANS, noun A sect of apostates from Mohammedism, who professed the abominable practices of the Ismaelians and Kirmatians. The word signified eso...