whore (hor)

[With unorig. w, as in whole, as it survives, is due to the fact that it is a favorite word with Shakspere (who uses it, with its derivatives, 99 times) and is common in the authorized English version of the Bible. The word in all its forms ( whoredom, etc.) is generally retained in the revised version of visers recommended the substitution of hariot, the Old though the American re as le gro ; in the revised version of the whoremonger, etc.) is substituted.] A woman New Testament harlot (with fornicator for who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot; a courtezan; a strumpet; hence, in abuse, any unchaste woman; an adultere or fornicatre . [Now only in low use.] Do not marry me to a whore . Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 521. Hee wooed her and sued her his mistre to bee, And offered rich presents to Mary Ambree. "A mayden of England, sir, never will bee The whore of a monarcke," quoth Mary Ambree. ... Mary Ambree (Child's Ballads, VII. 113). Thou know'st my Wrongs, and with what pain I wear The Name of Whore his Preachment on me pinn'd. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 184. whore (hor), v.; pret. and pp. whored, ppr. whoring. [=G. huren = Sw. hora = Dan. hore; cf. D. hoereren; from the noun.] I. in trans. To prostitute one's body for hire; in general, to practise lewdne . Shak., Othello, v. 1. 116. [Low.] to persons or things. A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 193. The whoreson rich innkeeper of Don caster, her father, shewed himself a rank ostler to send her up at this time a year, and by the carrier too. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, ii. 2. whorish (horse the actor of (hor'ish), a. [ a whore; lewd; unchaste. Shak., T. and C., iv. 1. 63. [Low.] Your whorish love, your drunken healths, your houts and shouts. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., iv. 1. whorishly (hor'ish-li), adv. In a whorish or lewd manner. [Low.] whorishne (hor'ish-nes), n. The character of being whorish. [Low.] whorl (hwerl or hworl), n. [ plied to a circle of radiating leaves-an arrangement of more than two leaves around a common center, upon the same plane with one another. Also whirl. See cuts under Lavandula, Paris, and Veronica. 2. In conch., one of the turns of a spiral shell; a volution; a gyre. The last whorl, opposite the apex or nucleus, and including the aperture of the shell, is commonly He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother. distinguished as the body - whorl. See Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 64. spire2, n., 2 (with cut), and cuts un II. trans. To corrupt by lewd intercourse. [Low.] A Vestal ravish'd, or a Matron whor'd , Are laudable Diversions in a Lord. Congreve, tr. of Eleventh Satire of Juvenal. whoredom (hor'dum), n. [ horedom , hordom, hordom = OD. hoer dom , whoredom; as whore + -dom.] Prostitution of the body for hire; in general, the practice of unlawful sexual commerce. In Scripture the term is sometimes applied metaphorically to idolatry the desertion of the worship of the true God for the worship of idols. IMG:content-2353.png:[blocks in formation] kinde, and noe mervell, as havinge no lawe to rest rayne wood, sometimes of hard stone, etc. Also whore domes, adulteries, and vncleanes of lief. The Company of Merchants trading to Muscovy (Ellis's Lit. [Letters, p. 79).