† horeling, horling Obs.
[f. ME. hore, whore + -ling.]
A fornicator, whoremonger; an adulterer, a paramour.
| c 1200 Moral Ode 103 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 223 Hwat sullen horlinges don? c 1325 Poem Times Edw. II, 25 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 324 If there be in countre an horeling, a shrewe, Lat him come to the court. 1340 Ayenb. 52 Þe drinkere and þe horling. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 157 Horlynges and strompettes. c 1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 2189 Quod hire horlyng in the bede. |