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Bawd

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

One who procures opportunities for persons of opposite sexes to cohabit in an illicit manner; who may be, while exercising the trade of a bawd, perfectly innocent of committing in his or her own proper person the crime either of adultery or of fornication.

See Dyer v. Morris, 4 Mo. 216.