bawdrick, bawdrycke, bawderyke, bawdryk, bawdrikke, bawdryg

[From Old Fr. baudric, baldret.] [BALDRIC.] "Fresh garlands too the virgins' temples crown'd: The youths gilt swords wore at their thighs with silver baudricks bound." Chapman: Iliad. bâwd-rỹ, bâud-rie, bâwd'-er-ie, + bâud-er-ie, bâld'-rše, s . [Eng. bawd ; -ry. In O. Fr. bauderie , balderie = boldne , joy.] [BAWD.] 1. The practice of a bawd that of procuring females for an immoral purpose, or of bringing together vicious persons of different sexes with evil intent. "Cheating and bawdry go together in the world."L'Estrange. 2. Illicit commerce of the sexes; obscenity in composition or otherwise; unchaste language. "I have no salt: no bawdry he doth mean; For witty, in his language, is obscene." Ben Jonson. * bâwd'-ship, s. [Eng. bawd ; -ship .] The 467 personality of a bawd. (Used, in mock courtesy, as a form of addre ; cf. lordship.)