Obscenity; unchaste language.
"I have no salt; no bawdry he doth mean; For witty, in his language, is obscene."
-B. Johnson
Bawd:
A procurer, or procuress; one that introduces men and women to each other, for the promotion of debauchey.
to bawd:
To procure; to provide gallants with strumpets.
"And in four months a batter'd harridan;
Now nothing's left, but wither'd, pale, and shrunk,
To bawd for others, and go shares with punk."
-Swift
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Ambidexter:
A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ridiculous.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Contrition:
(1) The act of grinding; or rubbing to powder.
(2) Penitence; sorrow for sin: in the strict sense, the sorrow which arises from the desire to please God, distinguished from attrition, or imperfect repentance produced by dread of hell.
(2) Penitence; sorrow for sin: in the strict sense, the sorrow which arises from the desire to please God, distinguished from attrition, or imperfect repentance produced by dread of hell.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
File
to file:
To foul, to sully; to pollute. This sense is retained in Scotland.
"His weeds, divinely fashioned,
All fil'd and mangl'd."
Chapman's Iliads. b. xvii
To foul, to sully; to pollute. This sense is retained in Scotland.
"His weeds, divinely fashioned,
All fil'd and mangl'd."
Chapman's Iliads. b. xvii
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Beldam
An old woman; generally a term of contempt, marking the last degree of old age, with all its faults and miseries.
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