n. [ From Aristarchus, a Greek grammarian and critic, of Alexandria, about 200 b. c. ] A severe critic. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Severely critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Severely criticism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Severe criticism. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Naut.) Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. Same as Astert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a Phœnician goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bastard, bastart, F. b&unr_;tard, prob. fr. OF. bast, F. b&unr_;t, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, “Don Quixote, ” chap. 16; and cf. G. bankert, fr. bank bench. ] 1. A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent time. But by those of England, and of some states of the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage. Kent. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sugar Refining) (a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings. (b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. [ 1913 Webster ]

That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (Zool.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bastardize. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An act that debases or corrupts. [ chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- bastardization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. Same as bastardize. [ chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

n. The state of being a bastard; bastardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An act that debases or corrupts.
Syn. -- bastardisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bastardized (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing. ] 1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beget out of wedlock. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its value declines; to debase.
Syn. -- bastardise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Arts) deriving from more than one source or style. impure (vs. pure) --- (combined with extraneous elements) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [ Obs. ] -- adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [ Obs. ] Shak. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestarred ] To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. “Bestarred with anemones.” W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
Syn. -- blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Zool.) Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. & Prov. F. bistarde, F. outarde, from L. avis tarda, lit., slow bird. Plin. 10, 22; “proximæ iis sunt, quas Hispania aves tardas appellat, Græcia 'wti`das.” ] (Zool.) A bird of the genus Otis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The great or bearded bustard (Otis tarda) is the largest game bird in Europe. It inhabits the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, and was formerly common in Great Britain. The little bustard (Otis tetrax) inhabits eastern Europe and Morocco. Many other species are known in Asia and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clearstarched p. pr. & vb. n. Clearstraching. ] To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who clearstarches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to be the co-star in a performance; as, Robin Williams co-starred in the film. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to feature as the co-star in a performance; as, the film co-starred Robin Williams as the psychiatrist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prob. fr. OF. coste rib, side, F. côte, and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See Coast. ] 1. An apple, large and round like the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some [ apples ] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The head; -- used contemptuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A costermonger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated. ] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. --
Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Icel. dæstr exhausted. breathless, p. p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze. ] One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. “Their dastard souls.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dastardize. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dastardized p. pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing. ] To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dastardliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Base timidity; cowardliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; -- usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sun, as the orb of day. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, α Canis Majoris. See Dog days. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- + bastardize. ] To bastardize. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. evangelistarium. ] A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The great bustard. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To starve with hunger; to famish. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.
Syn. -- ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To bastardize; to debase. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stud as with stars. [ R. ] “A golden throne instarred with gems.” J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power to start the vehicle normally. Cables used to transmit electrical current from one vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are called jumper cables. [ PJC ]

2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by application of a stimulus not normally used in the activity. [ Figurative ] [ PJC ]