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A prostitute. [Obs.]

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] Shak. Bustard quail (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird of the genus Turnix, as T. taigoor, a black-breasted species, and the hill bustard quail (T. ocellatus). See Turnix. -- Button quail (Zoöl.), one of several small Asiat…

A romping woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Lyly.

A prostitute. [Obs.]

nd, or last on order; -- opposed to Ant: front. Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost. Milton.

A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray.

ssed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

A bawd; a prostitute. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

Abounding with rime; frosty.

oderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger…

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.]

shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.

A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] Jamieson.

lifornia, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Sal…

A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawbwrry. See Runner.

found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.