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Lurch"line` (?), n. The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.

Lur"dan (?), a. Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

Lur"dan, n. [OF. lourdin, fr. lourd heavy, dull, thick-headed. See Lord.] A blockhead. [Obs.]

Lure (?), n. [OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure, decoy; of German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure, carrion.] 1. A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak.

2. Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton.

3. (Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush. Knight.

Lure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Luring.] [OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n.] To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.

I am not lured with love.

Piers Plowman.

And various science lures the learned eye.

Gay.

Lure, v. i. To recall a hawk or other animal.

Lurg (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys cæca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.

Lu"rid (?), a. [L. luridus.] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.

Thomson.

Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.

Tennyson.

2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Lurk (lûrk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurked (lûrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurking.] [OE. lurken, lorken, prob. a dim. from the source of E. lower to frown. See Lower, and cf. Lurch, a sudden roll, Lurch to lurk.] 1. To lie hid; to lie in wait.

Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den.

Spenser.

Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent.

Prov. i. 11.

2. To keep out of sight.

The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks.

Blackstone.