[bas-terd] 
| 1. | a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. |
| 2. | Slang.
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| 3. | something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. |
| 4. | bastard culverin. |
| 5. | illegitimate in birth. |
| 6. | spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic. |
| 7. | of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany. |
| 8. | having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds. |
| 9. | Printing. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found. |
| a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 lb. (11 and 17.6 kg). |
| bas·tard (bās'tərd) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Frisian bōst, marriage.] bas'tard·ly adj. |
Bastard
In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word _mamzer'_, which means "polluted." In Deut. 23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate offspring. In Zech. 9:6, the word is used in the sense of foreigner. From the history of Jephthah we learn that there were bastard offspring among the Jews (Judg. 11:1-7). In Heb. 12:8, the word (Gr. nothoi) is used in its ordinary sense, and denotes those who do not share the privileges of God's children.