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Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Pollex :: Pollex (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing..

Guerite :: Guerite (n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions..

Mamzer :: Mamzer (n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

Tympany :: Tympany (n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness..

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..

Bastardy :: Bastardy (n.) The procreation of a bastard child.

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..

Fall :: Fall (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol..

Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion..

Orillon :: Orillon (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses..

Bast :: Bast (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2..

Barbastel :: Barbastel (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips..

Retirade :: Retirade (n.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.

Whoreson :: Whoreson (n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively..

Demibastion :: Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank..

Bastinadoes :: Bastinadoes (pl. ) of Bastinad.

Grandiloquence :: Grandiloquence (n.) The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.

Surfaced :: Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion..

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