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g one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. "Mental prostitution." Byron.

A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

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.

A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.

uss. Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.…

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] Bale.

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

of criminals, and the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil, prostitution.

The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder. Milton.

A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.

A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.

The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.