Bible Dictionaries
Prostitute

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.

(2):

(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

(3):

(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

(4):

(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.

(5):

(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prostitute'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/prostitute.html. 1828.