DeepWaterWeb Glossary
All the DeepWaterWeb specific terminology you'll ever need... and a few other language related pearls of wisdom.
bas•tard
(bas`terd)
--n.1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. 2.
Slanga. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard
slashed the tires on my car. b. a person, esp. a man: The poor bastard
broke his leg. 3. something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
4. See bastard culverin. — adj.5. illegitimate in birth. 6. spurious; not
genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic. 7. of abnormal or
irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz;
bastard mahogany. 8. having the appearance of; resembling in some degree:
a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds. 9. Print. (of a character)
not of the font in which it is used or found. [1250–1300; ME < AF bastard,
ML bastardus (from 11th century) , perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) * b€st-,
presumed var. of * bŽst- marriage + OF -ard -ARD, taken as signifying the
offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan
tradition not sanctioned by the church; cf. OFris bost marriage < Gmc
* bandstu-, a n. deriv. of IE * bhendh- BIND; the traditional explanation
of OF bastard as deriv. of fils de bast "child of a packsaddle" is doubtful
on chronological and geographical grounds]— Syn.6. fake, imitation, imperfect,
sham, irregular, phony.
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dis•ci•pline
(dis`e plin) n., v., -plined, -plin•ing 
— n.1. training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
2. activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill;
training: A daily stint at the typewriter is excellent discipline for a
writer. 3. punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. 4. the
rigor or training effect of experience, adversity, etc.: the harsh discipline
of poverty. 5. behavior in accord with rules of conduct; behavior and order
maintained by training and control: good discipline in an army. 6. a set
or system of rules and regulations. 7. Eccles. the system of government
regulating the practice of a church as distinguished from its doctrine.
8. an instrument of punishment, esp. a whip or scourge, used in the practice
of self-mortification or as an instrument of chastisement in certain religious
communities. 9. a branch of instruction or learning: the disciplines of
history and economics. — v.t.10. to train by instruction and exercise;
drill. 11. to bring to a state of order and obedience by training and control.
12. to punish or penalize in order to train and control; correct; chastise.
[1175–1225; ME < AF < L discipl?na instruction, tuition, equiv. to
discipul ( us) DISCIPLE + -ina -INE2]— dis•ci•pli•nal (dis‚ƒ plƒ
nl, -plin?l, dis?ƒ plðn‚l) adj.— dis‚ci•plin?er, n.— Syn.3.
chastisement, castigation. 12. See punish.
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who•lis•tic ther•a•peu•tic mas•sage, n., v., -saged, -sag•ing
—n.
1. the act or art of giving equal attention to the whole of one's physical
requirements, especially sexual, while treating the body by rubbing, kneading,
patting, stroking or spanking, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness,
relieve tension, clear the mind etc. Typically inclusive of full
sexual intercourse, so as to avoid all the work done on the rest of the
body from being undone, soon after, by sexual tension that would usually
be untreated, in conventional western therapeutic massage technique.
2. any of the more attentive eastern style massage methodologies which do not at their conclusion leave the recipient too likely to cry out: "Hey! You missed a spot!"
3. any act that involves the application of sexual attention in exchange for monetary or some other value provided by an eager recipient.
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