Category: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.