Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LECH'ER, n. [It. lecco, gluttony, lechery; leccare, to lick; leccardo, greedy; G. lecken; D. likker. See lick, leak and lickerish. But in Saxon leger-scipe is lewdness, from leger, a layer, or a lying down; lecgan, to lay; ligan, to lie. See Lubricity.]

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an exorbitant degree, to the indulgence of the animal appetite, and an illicit commerce with females.