By-blow

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  By-blow \By"-blow`\, n.
     1. A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
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              With their by-blows they did split the very stones
              in pieces.                            --Bunyan.


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     2. An illegitimate child; a bastard.
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              The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced
              slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow,
              the present Padre Ottomano.           --Evelyn.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  by-blow
       n : the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: {bastard},
            {love child}, {illegitimate child}, {illegitimate}, {whoreson}]