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A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. [Obs.] He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.

To harlot. [Obs.] Warner.

Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton.

Harlotry.

A lewd woman; a harlot.

The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.

pon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton.

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

A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

A harlot; a drab; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.

A brothel; -- usually in the plural. Bacon. South. There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. Aschman.

A prostitute; a harlot. Shak.

A concubine; a harlot. [Obs.] Taylor (1630).

A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. Shak.

xual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Wyclif.