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Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

Wanton; frisky; lustful. [Obs.] J. V. Cane.

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

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.

lconda. De Foe. A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye. Shak.

Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness, n.

Ruttish; lustful.

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, dv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. Shak. Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodi…

Lustful, or pertaining to lust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Lustful; lascivious; libidinous. [R.] Derham.

Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. Shak.