Obs. [f. LECHER sb.] intr. To play the lecher. Hence † Lechering ppl. a.
1382. Wyclif, Num. xv. 39. Thei folowen not her owne thouȝtis and eyen, by dyuerse thingis lecherynge.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., 11. How he must … drinke carouse, and lecher with him out of whom he hopes to wring anie matter.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. vi. 114. The small gilded Fly Do’s letcher in my sight.
1611. Cotgr., Foutre, to leacher.
1631. Donne, Polydoron, 130. To letcher is like the spider that spinns a webb out of his owne bowells; to swill and drinke in excesse, is to turne trype-wife and wash gutts.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xlviii. 392. A Lechering Rogue.
1756. [E. Thompson], Demi-Rep, 31.
| If vanity or dress allure her mind, | |
| To forfeit fame and letcher with Mankind! |
