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To have sexual commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To embrace sexually. [Obs.] Pope.

ter or right. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne.

Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious. Johnson.

The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. Pennant.

r bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. [R.] Milton.

To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

oses upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence. If they [the unmarried and widows] have not continency, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Chastity is either abstinence or conti…

Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy. Shak.

Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.

Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.

rson or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite. O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords. Dryden.

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak.