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A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

Obscenely; lewdly.

Obscenity; lewdness.

A lewd man; also, a bully. [Obs.] Dryden.

An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman. Pope.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

An American river herring (Clupea æstivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

f bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb. -- Branch herring. See Alewife. -- Root and branch , totally, wholly.

ularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

he deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. -- Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the nose. -- Cantalever bridge. See under Cantalever. -- Draw bridge. See Drawbridge. -- Flying bridge, a temporary bridge suspended…

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.

ng to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.

s and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

Lewdness. [Obs.] Rom. xiii. 13.