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A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.

One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "You slew great number of his people." Shak.

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

Made heavy or dull; debased. [Obs.] "Pesanted to each lewd thought's control." Marston.

Expiatory; atoning. Sir G. C. Lewis.

One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. -- Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. -- Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving do…

dged character or reputation. "The prestige of his name must go for something." Sir G. C. Lewis.

Lecherous; lustful; lewd. [Obs.] Shak.

urden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise. He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke.

ostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

ce of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

. Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost indifferent to their truth. G. H. Lewes.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting. -- Quarter day, a day reg…

A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué. Am illiterate and frivolous old rake. Macaulay.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.