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<hw>Lur*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See its <er>Lurch</er>.]</ety> <def>Gluttony; gormandizing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Lurch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>lurcare</ets>, <ets>lurcari</ets>.]</ety> <def>To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

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<hw>Lurch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>lourche</ets> name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the <i>lurch</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a <b>lurch</b>. <i>Walpole.</i></blockquote>

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

<blockquote>But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not <b>leave thee in the lurch</b>. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote> </cs>

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<hw>Lurch</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To leave in the lurch; to cheat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Never deceive or <b>lurch</b> the sincere communicant. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To steal; to rob.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He <b>lurched</b> all swords of the garland. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Lurch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. W. <ets>llerch</ets>, <ets>llerc</ets>, a frisk, a frisking backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking, a lurking, <ets>llercian</ets>, <ets>llerciaw</ets>, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E. <ets>lurch</ets> to lurk.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

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<hw>Lurch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lurched</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lurching</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.</def>

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<hw>Lurch</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[A variant of <ets>lurk</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.</def>

<i>L'Estrange.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.</def>

<blockquote>I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to <b>lurch</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Lurch"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Lurch</er> to lurk.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.</def>