by-blow

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

by-blow
    n 1: the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn:
         {bastard}, {by-blow}, {love child}, {illegitimate child},
         {illegitimate}, {whoreson}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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