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One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. Swift.

etimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

ted elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.

Having pimples. Johnson.

Pimpled.

The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp. [R.]

A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak. Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. -- Curbstone broker or Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] -- Exchange broker, one who b…

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

A red pimple. [R.] Shak.

Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face." Brome.

Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.