Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lewd

Lewd (lūd) , adjective

[OE. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, Anglo-Saxon lawed laical, belonging to the laity.]

1.
Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obsolete]
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.