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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
v. i.(?)
Lurch
[L. lurcare, lurcari.]
  1. To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
    [Obs.]

    Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
n.
Lurch
  1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

    Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole.

    To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. Denham.

    But though thou'rt of a different church,
    I will not leave thee in the lurch.     Hudibras.

Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
v. t.
Lurch
  1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
    [Obs.]

    Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. South.

  2. To steal; to rob.
    [Obs.]

    And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
    He lurched all swords of the garland.     Shak.

Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
n.
Lurch
  1. A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
v. i.(?)
Lurch
[imp. *** p. p. Lurched (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Lurching.]
  1. To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.

Lurch

Lurch (lurch)
v. i.
Lurch
  1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place] to lurk.
    L'Estrange.
  2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

    I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shak.













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