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To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

Pert; wanton. [Obs.]

A wanton, pert girl. [Obs.]

To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.

Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

e violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. Spenser.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

d. Why is my neighbor's wife so gay Chaucer. A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dressMilton.

A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." B. Jonson.

A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.

Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.