资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lewd \Lewd\ (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} (-[~e]r); superl.
   {Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS.
   l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.]
   1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
      [Obs.]

            For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder
            is a lewed man to rust.               --Chaucer.

            So these great clerks their little wisdom show To
            mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir. J.
                                                  Davies.

   2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and
      lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer.

            But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto
            them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . .
            and assaulted the house of Jason.     --Acts xvii.
                                                  5.

            Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of
            mischief.                             --Southey.

   3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute;
      lustful; libidinous. --Dryden.

   4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving
      unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or
      language.

   Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute;
        sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous;
        rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n.