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English Dictionary: by-blow by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
by-blow
n
  1. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   By-blow \By"-blow`\, n.
      1. A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
  
                     With their by-blows they did split the very stones
                     in pieces.                                          --Bunyan.
  
      2. An illegitimate child; a bastard.
  
                     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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