資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bastard \Bas"tard\, a.
   1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
      See {Bastard}, n., note.

   2. 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.

   3. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a
      bastard culverin. [Obs.]

   4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
      preceding the full title page of a book.

   {Bastard ashlar} (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly
      squared at the quarry.

   {Bastard file}, a file intermediate between the coarsest and
      the second cut.

   {Bastard type} (Print.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), three to five quill feathers on a
      small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia;
      the alula.