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A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

See Lecher, n. Marston.

Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n.

Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

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

Lustful; lewd; lecherous. Shak.

lecherous; lustful. Robert of Brunne. -- Lick"er*ish*ly, adv. -- Lick"er*ish*ness, n.

Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.

A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] Shak.

Lecherous; lustful; lewd. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, dv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. Shak. Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodi…

pecifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. Shak.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.