(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the 2003 Sexual Offences Act, Murdoch and his bawds could see nothing wrong in exhibiting 16-year-olds, such as Samantha Fox, a schoolgirl when she first went on display.
Bawn
Definition:
(n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
(n.) A large house.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of para-substituted salicylic acids, all crystallizing monoclinically and decomposing by decarboxylation, were shown to adhere to Bawn-type kinetics, and the decomposition rate constants were shown to adhere approximately to a Hammett-type relation.