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

A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.] Mutton bird (Zoöl.), the Australian short-tailed petrel (Nectris brevicaudus). -- Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. -- Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or ha…

A prostitute. [Obs.] Marston.

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. I puff the prostitute away. Dryden.

A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.

A prostitute. [Obs.]

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.]

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

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.]

A prostitute. [Obs.] Shak.

A prostitute. [Obs.] Sir A. Weldon.

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

A prostitute; a harlot. Shak.