bawd

What, have I been bawd to his designs, his property only, a baiting place?

The heroine is Celestina, a bawd who helped them out of their troubles.

His soul is the bawd to his body, and those that assist him in this nature the nearest to it.

A bawd of eleven years continuance, may it please your honour.

He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.

Wells, though acquitted of the felony, was punished as a bawd.

Then I will say it: for the duchess; for the arch-liar and bawd!

Also, he spreads easy-money all along the sporting pike from baseball to the bawd.

In the former case the bawd was the principal, in the latter the women.

In that work the capture of a virgin named Tarsia by a bawd is described.