Bastard

Bas·tard

A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings. (Sugar Refining)
A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
Brown bastard is your only drink.
— Shak.
A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.

Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices.
— Barrow.
Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. (Print.)

Bastard ashlar: stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.
Bastard file: a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.
Bastard type: 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: three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.

v. t.