Definition of bast

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Bast (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom..

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Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
Surfaced :: Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion..
Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..
Crownwork :: Crownwork (n.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank..
Demibastion :: Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank..
Alabastrian :: Alabastrian (a.) Alabastrine.
Grandiloquence :: Grandiloquence (n.) The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
Bastinadoing :: Bastinadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastinad.
Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Mamzer :: Mamzer (n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..
Hornwork :: Hornwork (n.) An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Tenaille :: Tenaille (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin..
Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..
Subastringent :: Subastral (a.) Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.
Rosefish :: Rosefish (n.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt..
Alabastra :: Alabastra (pl. ) of Alabastru.
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
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